The Midwife's Apprentice (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: September 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780064406307
Subjects: Middle Ages; Classics; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 3-4; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Midwives; Historical - Medieval; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Medieval; Action & Adventure - General; Girls & Women; Fiction; Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary
First sentence: "WHEN ANIMAL DROPPINGS and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat."