Catherine, Called Birdy

With wit and determination, thirteen-year-old Catherine chronicles her sometimes outrageous strategies to thwart her father's plans to marry her off and finds "a way to make her voice heard among all of these forces that want to shut it down" in medieval England. The beloved Newbery Honor Book's 25th Anniversary! (Bustle) New introduction by Linda Sue Park.
Catherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman of good family, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year--the year 1290. A Newbery Honor Book.