Day 7: Most underrated book

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, is another book that I read in middle school, this time 7th grade.  Catherine is 14, and she lives in the medieval age.  (The year being 1290).  Her father is a minor nobleman, and she, being his daughter is to marry a suitor that her father approves of.  Unfortunately for said suitors, Catherine is a little bit of a troublemaker.  She scares off most of the suitors by playing humiliating pranks on them, while infuriating her father. 

She tells her story through the diary that she keeps, and in it are a lot of little facts and tidbits about the time period that she lived in.

I love this book.  It's funny and cute.  It has a nice resolution to the book, and I really enjoyed seeing an early feminist being portrayed, because girls like her, I hope, really did exist and didn't give in too easily to the whims of men. 

I think that this is a really underrated children's book that you really don't hear too much about.