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    <body><![CDATA[So I have 4 children in 3 different schools and consequently spend a lot of time in the car.  Lately I have been listening to a lot of YA fiction to pass the taxi time.  I figure with little ears in the back seat, I better keep things safe and select books on CD strictly from the young adult section...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78698063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing writing with amazing historical accuracy, or at least intentioned and it worked. She nailed it. A young girl raised by a Priest and taught the ways of God and man and saints and well versed in Latin but never given any real life skills. Unlike many in this time she could read and write which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57095533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think of the three of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9640.Karen_Cushman" title="Karen Cushman">Karen Cushman</a>'s that I have read so far this is my favorite. You can see the growth as an author in this book, I believe it is her fourth, in the depth of the charaters and the development of the story. <br/>Matilda is prickly as a main charater and difficult to enjoy at fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67440058">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A slight but entertaining story about a sheltered, well-educated girl who finds her ability to read Latin and intimate knowledge of saints and devils to be of very little use when she is apprenticed to a bonesetter and plunged into the world of medieval medicine. Great grade-school material to read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60667842">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book “Matilda Bone” by author Karen Cushman, talks about how Matilda is used to an easier way of living. She would prefer to live in a manor house with Father Leufredus than to live with a bone setter, because in the manor she got everything she wanted, and she studied Latin and the lives of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70267808">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Liked this juve. fiction book set in Medieval England... I enjoyed the quirky characters and learning about a practice called &quot;bone-setting&quot;.  Bone setters could be unlearned and even women (gasp!) They, of course, set broken bones and did other things doctors would not do. This story tell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48471613">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first started listening to this book, I wasn't sure I would continue.  There was too much reference by Matilda (age 14) to the priest that she had lived with prior to her coming to live with the bone setter, Peg.  As the book continued on, though, I realized that the author was brilliant in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48795513">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful little story about Matilda, who has gone to be a bonesetter's helper after living in a manor where she assisted and was taught by a priest.  She learns about the love of God as opposed to His wrath and judgment and  comes to understand that she must use the tools that she has to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46175817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm wondering how historically accurate this one is, and tempted to go back and reread Birdy, which I only remember good things about.  This one was a bit more heavy handed, about blindly believing what you are told vs learning through experience.  It's mostly put in terms of science vs religion.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74271821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though not quite as engaging as her other two, this novel of a girl struggling against the limitations of society in the Middle Ages is still an entertaining way of learning how real people lived.  With humor and good values, this tale is well worth the little time it takes to read. Aimed at upper e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69916316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Self-centered Matilda has to go and work with a healer; work that she finds beneath her, but Red Peg wisely lets her help until she begins to look at the patients as individuals and sees how she can make them feel better.  The story is told with vivid images from Medieval days which make history com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59788346">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. <br/><br/>Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. <br/><br/>Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Matilda is a snot and is infuriating at times, however it's not her fault because she's been brainwashed by a morbid priest. I'm glad that she comes to her senses by the end of the book. The other characters are heartwarming people who could teach us all a thing or two about how to live. I would rec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68135136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Includes bibliographical references about medieval medical.  14-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.  Grades 4+]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The reason I picked up this book is because I've read and enjoyed two other books by Karen Cushman.  She does a great job with medieval heroines who have a bit of attitude.  This particular heroine winds up being an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter of Blood and Bone Alley.  She's not happy at fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17006643">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's about a girl named Matilda who is very religious.She lived with a priest until selfish Matilda goes to live with Meg in blood and bones alley.Meg is not at all religious and treats Matilda as her assistant.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved all of Karen Cushman's books when i was younger, and i'm happy i still like her as an adult. just a fun, simple book with wonderful characters and a nice lesson.]]></body>
    
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