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![]() ![]() Cushman's early honors were not just beginner's luck. ''The Ballad of Lucy Whipple'' does feature a young woman, but this time the setting is gold-rush California, and it's clear that Ms. It would make a fine trilogy at a time when historical fiction for girls is attractively packaged and marketed by series. Cushman's next novel to be more of the same: another story of a young woman coming of age in medieval England. With this kind of initial success, one might expect Ms. In ''The Midwife's Apprentice,'' a young woman with no given name rises from a dunghill to learn midwifery and to earn a proper name and self-respect. Catherine rails against a father who seeks a wealthy husband for her. Both books portray young women struggling to establish their identities in an oppressive medieval society. ![]() Her second, ''The Midwife's Apprentice,'' won the 1996 Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. Her first novel, ''Catherine, Called Birdy,'' was named a 1995 Newbery Honor Book. Some very fine writers labor in obscurity for years with little or no recognition, but not Karen Cushman. ![]() THE BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE By Karen Cushman. ![]()
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