Middle Grade Review: May Amelia
Today, I'm doing two books at once. I listened to the audio back-to-back, repeating the first book, which I read several years ago, in order to have the context for the second book. Titles: Our Only May Amelia and The Trouble with May Amelia Author: Jennifer L. Holm; read by Emmy Rossum & Maria Dalbotten, respectively. Publishers: Harper Collins 2001, and Atheneum, 2011. Audio editions by Listening Library, 2007 and 2012. Source: Library Summary: Our Only May Amelia: May Amelia struggles along as the only girl in the whole pioneering settlement along the Nasel River in Washington State. Having seven brothers doesn't help, nor does the fact that in spite of all this, everyone somehow expects her to be a proper young lady. But she's looking forward to that changing, with the birth of a new baby in the family! It might even be enough to compensate for Grandma's moving in with them. The Trouble with May Amelia: A year along, or thereabouts, May is still strugg...