This book won the Newbury Metal. A girl known as brat or beetle or anything else cruel is in a dung pile staying warm for the night when a midwife finds her and takes her home. This girl renames herself Alyce and becomes the Midwife’s apprentice. It is hard for me to imagine someone getting so little love and ending up in her circumstances. I like this story because it is a story of determination and of learning and one of figuring out individual worth. The book deserves its Newbury Metal. It is a very high quality book. It was hard to put the book down.
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