![]() Disappointingly, Cushman does not offer any hardships or internal wrestling to warrant Alyce's final epiphanies, and one of the book's climactic insights is when Alyce discovers that lo and behold she is actually pretty! Still, Cushman redeems her writing, as always, with historical accuracy, saucy dialogue, fast-paced action, and plucky, original characters that older readers will eagerly devour. Get an answer for 'In chapter 3 of The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, we read that 'In the afternoon Beetle left the village for the woods, where she gathered honey, trapped birds, and. ![]() Instead of facing her ignorance, Alyce chooses to run from failure-never a good choice. On Alyce's first solo outing as a midwife, she fails to deliver. This time our protagonist is Alyce, who rises from the dung heap (literally) of homelessness and namelessness to find a station in life-apprentice to the crotchety, snaggletoothed midwife Jane Sharp. Like her award-winning book Catherine, Called Birdy, the story takes place in medieval England. ![]() In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination for children and adult readers alike. Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. ![]()
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