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Our only May Amelia

by Jennifer L. Holm · 1999

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As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.

Brothers and sistersFinnish AmericansFictionSex roleFrontier and pioneer lifeNewbery HonorLarge type booksJuvenile fictionNewbery MedalSiblingsHistorical fictionChildren's fiction
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