This is a fun book, not too long for your average 'chapter book reader,' that takes you to a different time and place.I'm not sure what the time or place is -- the landscape is medieval Britain, as advertised, but the characters are most definitely not -- but the psycho-cultural inaccuracies are usually easy to overlook, and you get a funny, colorful, interesting book filled with details of what para-medical support was available at the time for pregnant women.Cushman is at her best with intelligent, feisty, growing young women, and this book is true to that vein.