Catherine, Called Birdy (Newbery Honor Book)
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Books › Young Adult Fiction › Historical › Medieval
ISBN: 0395681863 / Publisher: Clarion Books, May 1994
During her fourteenth year, in the year 1290, Catherine keeps a diary in which she details her family's activities and conflicts, the life of their medieval English manor, and her own coming to maturity.
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In her "witty, irreverent diary," Catherine describes her mother's efforts to turn her into a lady, her father's attempts to marry her off, and her resolve to be who she wants to be and live the life she chooses, despite the conventions governing girls of good family in medieval England. A Newbery Honor book. (School Library Journal, starred)
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