The trouble with May Amelia
By: Jennifer L. Holm ; illustrated by Adam Gustavson
Contributors: Gustavson, Adam, ill
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781416913740
Subjects: Sex role; Brothers and sisters; Frontier and pioneer life; Finnish Americans; Juvenile fiction; History; Fiction
Description: A twelve-year-old Finnish American girl growing up on a farm on the Nasel River in 1900 tries to prove to her father that girls are not useless.  The plot contains violence.

Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when an enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
Notes: Sequel to: Our only May Amelia.

Ages 8-12.

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