Karen Cushman

California Whipple hates her name - but she hates the place she's named after even more. She never wanted to leave her civilized home in Massachusetts and travel all the way to this rough, barren land...

A homeless waif roams the villages of 14th-century England, sleeping in dung heaps and begging for scraps. A girl with no future and no hope, whose only name is Brat. But then Brat meets Jane the Midw...