REVIEW: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Dear Ms. Cushman,

The title of this book rang a bell when I saw it for sale. Since it has such a positive reputation and was a Newbery Honor book, I felt confident that it would be worth my time to seek out and try. I immediately fell for Catherine, called Birdy. But I also acknowledge that if a young woman who might act and think like Birdy actually existed in England in the year 1290, she would have been one in a million.

Birdy’s diary faithfully records a year of her life beginning when she...