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A review by aymswa
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
3.0
Our Only May Amelia is a book I wish my parents had read my sister and I growing up. The book tells of the sweet, adventurous tales of May Amelia, a young girl living with her parents and seven brothers on the Nasel River in 1899 after the Finnish immigrated there.
My little sister and I often considered ourselves wildly boisterous and rambunctious children, always getting into trouble, all in an attempt at competing with our older brother and his friends. This book tells a similar tale of May Amelia and her life growing up with no other young females around. Based on the author's Grandaunt Alice Amelia Holm and her diary entries as a young girl living beside the river; Our Only May Amelia is a sweet story for anyone with young daughters, that perfectly balances the highs and lows of living in such a place in the late 1800's.
My little sister and I often considered ourselves wildly boisterous and rambunctious children, always getting into trouble, all in an attempt at competing with our older brother and his friends. This book tells a similar tale of May Amelia and her life growing up with no other young females around. Based on the author's Grandaunt Alice Amelia Holm and her diary entries as a young girl living beside the river; Our Only May Amelia is a sweet story for anyone with young daughters, that perfectly balances the highs and lows of living in such a place in the late 1800's.