The Book Report, November 1st, 2000
Cushman, Karen Matilda Bone 2000. 167pp. $15.00 hc. Clarion Books. 0-395-88156-0. Grades 5-9
In the medical community of a fourteenth-century English village, thirteen-year-old Matilda is apprenticed to a bonesetter. Orphaned at the age of six, Matilda became the ward of the man her father had worked for and was tutored by his manor priest. When she is sent to live with Red Peg the Bonesetter, Matilda begins to mature and develop relationships with the interesting and hard-working residents of this medical community. As if watching Matilda grow weren't enough, Cushman's readers get a lesson...
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