8 Top fiction books like The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

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The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England…

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1. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

By: Joan W. Blos

3.54

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book. So begins the journal… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?"

-Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

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2. Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess

By: Chris Riddell , Richard Platt

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

"Not many, if any, children's books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of informatio… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1) by Avi

3. The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)

By: Avi

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

"Asta's Son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mo… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

4. The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England… read more

Similar categories in Karen Cushman's The Midwife's Apprentice book and Karen Cushman's The Midwife's Apprentice

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
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5. The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great hous… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Out of the Dust

By: Karen Hesse

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

By: Richard Peck

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. Criss Cross

By: Lynne Rae Perkins

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in … read more

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9. Lincoln: A Photobiography

By: Russell Freedman

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. Th… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongs…"

-Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography

10. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

By: Paul Fleischman , Eric Beddows

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noiseis a collection of… read more

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11. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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12. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

By: Nancy Willard , Alice Provensen , Martin Provensen

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by William Blake'sSongs of Innocenceand Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of… read more

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13. Missing May

By: Cynthia Rylant

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Sc… read more

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14. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

By: Robert Byrd , Laura Amy Schlitz

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Step back to medieval 1255 England and meet 22 villagers, illustrated in pen and ink, inspired by t… read more

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Cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) by Patricia MacLachlan

15. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

16. M.C. Higgins, the Great

By: Virginia Hamilton

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah… read more

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17. The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)

By: Susan Patron

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-ol… read more

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18. The Whipping Boy

By: Peter Sís , Sid Fleischman

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses … read more

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19. The View from Saturday

By: E.L. Konigsburg

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more

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20. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geraldine McCaughrean

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Even with the rain, they… read more

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0.00

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Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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3.77

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Elizabeth Enright

3.75

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