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May
Amelia Jackson is 100% tomboy. She has an eye for adventure, a nose
for trouble, and no problem finding it. Not to mention seven older
brothers who seem to have so much more fun doing things that "Proper
Ladies" would never do. Not that May Amelia worries about what "Proper
Ladies" can and can't do. To the annoyance of her parents, May Amelia
has no intention of being a "Proper Lady."
Normally
a book's genre can be determined just by looking at the cover art
or reading the first chapter. Not this time. Told through the eyes
of twelve-year-old May Amelia, the author, Jennifer L. Holm, shows
what life might have been like back in the 1800s. The combination
of being written in an old fashion dialect, with authentic looking
pictures, makes OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA look and read like an autobiography
instead of historical fiction. It is so convincing that you may
find yourself looking for OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA in the non-fiction
section . . . and you may even be successful in finding it there.
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Reviewed by Kathy Hale
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