![]() ![]() Shorter than the first (and with attractive chapter-opening illustrations), this book stands alone just fine, but readers will surely want more May Amelia. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. Add in narrator May Amelia’s appealingly candid voice and several characters to care deeply about, and it’s another winning tale. ![]() But even when the tragedies (an aunt is murdered and her son nearly decapitated a brother’s hand is crushed a neighbor kills himself) seem overwhelming, amid the heartbreak come humorous, life-affirming moments that keep readers afloat and showcase the extreme fortitude of these immigrants. Set in Washington State in 1900, Holm’s story contains a true-to-life amount of danger, illness, and death. “Pappa says I’m Just Plain Stupid because I Never Pay Attention and that he would rather have one boy than a dozen May Amelias because Girls Are Useless.” When a man comes by with a get-rich-quick scheme, Pappa asks May Amelia, not her brothers, to translate for him she’s proud to be useful, but when it turns out to be a scam and they lose their farm, Pappa blames her. She’s constantly trying to prove she’s as good as a boy-not an easy task. ![]() In this highly satisfying sequel to the 2000 Newbery Honor book Our Only May Amelia, twelve-year-old Finnish American May Amelia is still getting into heaps of trouble, usually with Pappa, and usually because she just wants to do what her brothers (she has seven) are allowed to do. ![]()
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