Book Menu for Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
ISBN of edition I read: 0399236279 (hardcover)
This is a beautifully written historical fiction for young adults. This adult reader loved it too!
Food mentioned in Girl in a Cage:
Turnips, 3
Walnuts, 53
Chestnuts, 53, 129
Cheese, 53, 143
Cakes, 53
Pears, 129
Bread, 143
Grapes, 153
Blackberries, 153
Honey, 153
Gooseberry tarts, 229
Music mentioned in Girl in a Cage:
Bagpipes, 106
Literary elements in Girl in a Cage:
Similes:
"He had a pleasant enough face--for an Englishman--with ruddy cheeks and a nose bulbed like a leek." (page 7)
"'The English are fanning out from Perth like spilled ink spreading across a sheet of parchment'"
(page 91)
"The morning hours seemed to crawl along, like a legless beggar in a town square." (page 131)
Personifications:
"Above us on the rocky heights, the sodden trees dripped in sympathy with my own sunken spirits." (page 105)
"It was one of the few places where sunlight had found a purchase..." (page 121)
"His signet ring winked at me in the sun." (page 146)
Great vocabulary in Girl in a Cage:
prattling, 8
rebuke, 8
reivers, 13
pismires, 57
temerity, 99
lea, 101, 218
roan, 108
neeps, 111
tatties, 111
puir, 193
blearily, 216
gaoler, 228
Discussion questions for Girl in a Cage :
What is Princess Marjorie's relationship with the cage?
