A review by sarahmkennedy32109
The Last Carolina Girl by Meagan Church

4.0

North Carolina—The Last Carolina Girl. This is another one I really loved, but it is definitely a tear jerker especially at the beginning! Leah is a 14 year old who is being raised by her lumberjack father as her mother died in childbirth. She lives a peaceful, very simple life with him in the caretakers cabin of a wealthier family. At the beginning of the book a tragic accident takes her fathers life and she is sent to live with a family of strangers. Set in the 1930s in Matthews, NC at the time when the state was also practicing eugenics, this is a novel about resilience, determination, and refusing to forget who one is and what they want in life. I loved Leah and found myself rooting for her the entire story.