She is stuck with her family, and she has to find a way to make life bearable.
Filled with the witty dialogue and richly authentic detail that Karen Cushman’s work is known for, Matilda Bone is a compelling comic novel about a girl who learns to see herself and others clearly, to laugh, and to live contentedly in this world. Matilda is five years old now, so she is not old enough to run away and live on her own.
When Father Leufredus leaves Matilda at the shop of Peg the Bonesetter in Blood and Bone Alley, Matilda can hardly believe what is happening to her. Lonely and misunderstood, she seems destined for a fate as tragic as that of any of the sharp-tongued saints she turns to for advice. Karen Cushman Historical Fiction For ages 12 and up Random House, 2002 ISBN: 978-0440418221. Listen Free to Matilda Bone audiobook by Karen Cushman with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and Android. Matilda is appalled by the worldliness of her new surroundings and yearns for the days at the manor when all she did was study and pray. To Matilda’s dismay, her work will not involve Latin or writing, but lighting the fire, going to market, mixing plasters and poultices, and helping Peg treat patients. To Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to be pious and learned, and now destined to assist Red Peg the Bonesetter. In her long-awaited new novel, Newbery medalist Karen Cushman assembles a cast of unforgettable characters in a fascinating and pungent setting: the medical quarter of a medieval English village.
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