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. Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Western, TV Movie Release Date: User Rating: 6. A drop drills a rock by falling not twice. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001) While the world headed West for gold, one family came for adventure. 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." Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo sic homo fit sapiens non bis, sed saepe legend. 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. With each day, the homesick Lucy is more and more determined to take life into her own hands and return to New England. There are no books, no school-nothing but dust and drunken miners. 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. 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. Moving is the last thing the outspoken twelve-year-old, Lucy, wants to do. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is her firsthand account of her struggles in a rough and tumble land. 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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