Newbery medalist Karen Cushman assembles a cast of unforgettable characters

in a fascinating and pungent setting: the medical quarter of a medieval

English Village. To Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, baarber-surgeon,

and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by [...]

Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London, dirty and noisy, full of rogues[...]

In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists--a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer--and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. Then he reluctantly joins a traveling troupe of "[...]