The story opens with a young girl with no name, no family, burying herself in a dung heap for warmth. The girl is taken in by a midwife, Jane, who dubs her Beetle for her choice of sleeping quarters. Jane’s decision to take Beetle in is not due to benevolence, however, but greed; Jane sees that Beet...
Good narrative for MG readers about life in medieval England. Strong sense of place and time, and historically good. And kudos for talking about a job that almost (but not quite) vanished.Library copy
I really enjoyed the economy of language here. One of my favorite things about the juvenile/ya genre is that there used to be a pressure against wordiness. Not sure that holds to the same degree it once did, but in any case, this is a terrific example of telling an absorbing story in a few pages w...
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