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"Matilda Bone", a historical-fiction novel written by Karen Cushman, which consists of a young orphan girl named Matilda. Matilda is someone who passed all of her life in a religious manor and was then transferred to a filthy town,("...could you please come back for me soon?"p41 "i must get word to Father Leufredus. Could you keep this letter for me and send it next time you meet someone going to London?"P 42) that has lack of hygiene, no rights for peasants, but that does have knowledge about health. "Matilda Bone" contains the feelings of loneliness, love and happiness. This book shows these three moods by describing Matilda as a young, selfish, frozen-hearted, lonely girl("Never had she fell so alone"P40). From that moment Matilda began to accept her moving in to Blood and Bone Alley and began opening her heart("No. I think the miracle was the skill of Margery and Peg and your kind heart"P121). Realizing that Blood and Bone Alley was not so bad after all. Matilda grew happier and more caring, making all of that loneliness and selfishness disappear away from sight ("Late for what she could not say, but nevertheless she hurried..."P159)