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