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A review by librariandest
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
3.0
Fun in that Laura Ingalls Wilder frontier sense--which means you can be appalled by how hard everyday life was and, at the same time, be delighted by how simple everyday life was. It's a mixed bag of adventure and tragedy, with no great drama other than the characters surviving and getting along okay.
May Amelia is a tomboy, a troublemaker, and a plucky youngster with adorable speech patterns. She's the only girl in her small Finnish community in southwestern Washington. She struggles with loneliness and constant disapproval from her brothers, father and grandmother for not being "a proper young lady."
Some notes: A woman is murdered kind of gruesomely. The word "chinaman" is used a lot, which I'm sure is historically accurate, but might be offensive.
May Amelia is a tomboy, a troublemaker, and a plucky youngster with adorable speech patterns. She's the only girl in her small Finnish community in southwestern Washington. She struggles with loneliness and constant disapproval from her brothers, father and grandmother for not being "a proper young lady."
Some notes: A woman is murdered kind of gruesomely. The word "chinaman" is used a lot, which I'm sure is historically accurate, but might be offensive.