Our Only May Amelia

Name: Our Only May Amelia
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN: 9780739359679

Author: Jennifer L. Holm

Narrator: Emmy Rossum

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 12/11/2007

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Historical Stories

Synopsis

She may be a miracle,
but she’s no Proper Young Lady!

It isn’t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it’s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can’t seem to abide her family’s insistence that she behave like a Proper Young Lady. Not when there’s fishing to be done, sheep to be herded, and real live murderers to be captured! May is sure she could manage better if only there were at least one other girl living along the banks of the Nasel River. And now that Mama’s going to have a baby, maybe there’s hope. . . .

About The Author

Jennifer L. Holm is the grandniece of Alice Amelia Holm, a Finnish-American girl born on the Nasel River in Washington state during the nineteenth century. The recent discovery of her grandaunt’s diary and her ancestors’ adventures in the Pacific Northwest inspired the character of May Amelia. Ms. Holm also wrote the Newbery Honor book Penny From Heaven, which is available on audio from Listening Library.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenni on October 06, 2012

My mom's been married a few times now, and I can honestly say that not much good has come out of the multiple stepfathers I've dealt with. There is one notable exception: my first stepfather, when I was maybe 8 years old, randomly decided to give my sister and I a present each. He put his hands behi......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on December 01, 2020

I love historical fiction, and as a kid I was really into pioneer type of stories of early America. But strangely, I never got into Little House on the Prairie. I liked the show fine, but I wasn't the hugest fan of Laura, I must confess. So I never tried the books. But I am a huge fan of May Amelia,......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on January 27, 2024

There are so few books out there that have really hit me like a hard punch in the gut, that the emotions of the experience are always compounded by the surprise. To stir up complex and dynamic real emotion in a human heart by nothing more than the trails of ink on the page of a novel is an accomplis......more