Title: The trouble with May Amelia
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.
Subjects: Sex role, Brothers and sisters, Frontier and pioneer life, Finnish Americans, Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction, Children's fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Washington (state), fiction
Places: Washington (State)
Time periods: 19th century