NewberyCatherine, Called Birdy
Newbery Medal Honor
Book · Middle Grade
The Midwife's Apprentice
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A homeless waif roams the villages of 14th-century England, sleeping in dung heaps and begging for scraps. A girl with no future and no hope, whose only name is Brat. But then Brat meets Jane the Midwife, the important-looking lady with the starched wimple who badly needs a helper.
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