With a story that is less a period piece than a timeless and richly comic coming-of-age story, Cushman remains on a roll. "The recent Newbery medalist plunks down two more strong-minded women, this time in an 1849 mining camp-a milieu far removed from the Middle Ages of her first novels, but not all that different when it comes to living standards. Lucy’s story, as the author points out in her end notes, is the story of many pioneer women who exhibited great strength and courage as they helped to settle the West." Karen Cushman's other books include Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice."Cushman’s heroine is a delightful character, and the historical setting is authentically portrayed. Dispelling the idea that only men went there to seek their fortune, Cushman focuses on the women and families who created homes and towns from a harsh landscape. Newbery Award-winning author Karen Cushman paints a vivid picture of life in the gold fields. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is her firsthand account of her struggles in a rough and tumble land. Families - California - Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life - California - Juvenile fiction.
Tags Add tags for 'The ballad of Lucy Whipple'. With each day, the homesick Lucy is more and more determined to take life into her own hands and return to New England. In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
There are no books, no school-nothing but dust and drunken miners. What Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman did for medieval England in Catherine, Called Birdy. Reaching California, the Whipples set up a crude boardinghouse, and Lucy is put to work washing, cleaning, and baking pies in the rough mining town of Lucky Diggins. Buy a used copy of The Ballad of Lucy Whipple book by Karen Cushman. Moving is the last thing the outspoken twelve-year-old, Lucy, wants to do. In the summer of 1849, Lucy Whipple's mother packs up her household and her two young children, and leaves their home in Massachusetts for the gold fields of California.
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