Helpful Score: 4
VERY good book. Young girl goes from being homeless and abused to a respected member of society.
Helpful Score: 4
This is a charming story about a girl who learns how to choose her own path in life. Beetle, who has no family and cannot remember her name, realizes that she can be Alyce, a confident woman and sensitive person.
Helpful Score: 3
this is a book for the young and old. absolutely brill. touching, sad at times, sweet, but altogether funny! a must read!
Helpful Score: 2
A wonderful look at how a begger becomes worth wial.
This is dealing with a MIDWIFE'S apprentice, so there were just a couple descriptions that I would not have been ready for my 8 year old to read, even though we were studying medieval history in our homeschool. I'm very thankful I read it first. I might recommend this to an older, more mature child but not a little kid. Seems like you sometimes can't trust the Newbery Award to be without questionable materials so I've learned to use discretion and read the books first. We're much more sensitive in our home about sexuality in books, movies, and TV than maybe most people are, I guess. It was still well written and I enjoyed the setting of the middle ages.
