Boston Jane Series: An Adventure

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Summary: All girls must read this!
Review: "Boston Jane Series: An Adventure" is an excellent book for girls of all ages. It teaches a valuable lesson: females do not need to surrender to males. Women can do all that men can do and more, and we need to not comply with what society expects of us. The story was exciting and realistic. Jane is very witty, and everyone can grow to like her. I couldn't not help but roll my eyes whenever the ladies handbook was mentioned. I truly enjoyed this book. I recommend.

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Summary: An Adventure!
Review: Boston Jan tell the story of Jane Peck in the 1800s. Her father is a surgeon and she gets to help him cure people. In her spare time, she enjoys spitting and throwing things. But things change when her father's apprentice, William, tells Jane that she should be a lady. Because she had a crush on him, she enrolls in a girl's school. Within a few years she is a lady. Willaim goes west to the fronteir, and sends a letter asking Jane to marry her. To her father's dismay, she goes. You have to read the book to find out what happens next. This is a fantastic book! I felt so sorry for Jane at certain parts of the book. And, this book is way better than Our Only May Amelia, the other book by the author.

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Summary: this was okay/good
Review: Boston Jane is a great book. The character of Jane is a feisty, funny and a remarkable young woman for her time. She defies the laws which bound women in that time. She threw manure balls if she wanted to, ate what she wanted to, and spoke her mind. But then hormones kick in. Yup, those annoying, pesky little problems that race through us 9-17 year-old's bodies. She falls for a guy. His name is William and Jane thinks he's just the most remarkable thing since the invention of the wheel. And he tells her she really should be more of a lady. So what does this silly little tomboy do? Heads off to Miss Hepplewhite's finishing school, of course! Now she can't have any more of the foods she loves (namely, Mrs. Parker's cherry pie), she must sit a certain way, dress a certain way, and do whatever Miss. Hepplewhite tells her to do, for fear of dissapointing William. Don't we all do that for cute guys?
Then, oh horror of horrors, William decides he's going to move west to be a lumberjack. Poor Jane! The best way she can think of to cope is to ask him to write her! And, joy of joys!, he does. And, blissfully and wonderfully, that handsome man asks her to come west to marry him!
But, oops, big problem. Her rent' says he isn't about to let his daughter go off out west to marry some lumberjack. Oh well, eventually this daddy's girl convinces him that if he doesn't let her go, her little heart will break! So he finally lets her go.
Uh-oh. Major big gigantosaurous mistake. When she finally gets to where she's supposed to meet him, he isn't there!(hey, I didn't say it was fast, convincing her father) So here Miss Lady Jane is, stuck in the middle of the wilderness with a bunch of uncivilized men and indians. Find out if Jane survives the hilarious, touching, and heart-breaking events that follow! And see if William comes back!

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Summary: I guess I was just a little too old for this book
Review: Boston Jane is such a good book. This book made me love historical fiction. It's about a "proper" young lady from Philidelphia who travels to the unsettled Shoalwater Bay to wed. What she excpects is a nice little village where when you pass, everybody knows your name. What she got was a tiny cabin where rowdy drunken men an Indians stayed together. She also learns that her fiancee is no longer there. She decides to stay at Shoalwater Bay and wait someone to find him and bring him back. While waiting, she not also find her true friends, but also her true love.

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Summary: READ IT!
Review: Boston Jane was such a good book! I read it in one day and finished its sequel the next and am anxiously awaiting the upcoming third book to this series. It is about Jane,a girl from Philadelphia, who goes out west and finds many adventures, true friends, and unexpected love. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction with a twist of romance and adventure interwoven within the story.

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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!
Review: I don't think I've spent a more enjoyable two days while reading this book! Unless you count the one day it took to read it's sequel Boston Jane: Wilderness Days! A combination of historical fiction, adventure, and romance you come to know Jane so well, she becomes one of the family. It's truly a book for all ages, so girls (ages 12-15), when you finish it, please pass it on to your mothers! It's going to be tough to wait for the third installment due Winter of 2003!

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Summary: Jane's Adventure
Review: In this story, a very refined young lady Miss Jane Peck follows her fiance' to the Oregon frontier. Jane grew up in Phiadelphia with her father. She is very much a tomboy until she attends Miss Hepplewhites young ladies academy. This is where she learns etiquette, French, music, and embroidery. She decides to travel by boat halfway around the world to become William's wife after he has sent a letter asking for her hand. She is seasick throughout the trip, and most uncertain when she arrives and learns William is nowhere to be found. Jane is now forced to live with a group of smelly, rude, uncivilized male traders. She soon has to learn how to live on the frontier. This story is hilarious as the reader watches Jane learn that her finishing school skills are useless and that she quickly must learn new skills to survive in this pioneer life. I enjoyed watching Jane grow and develop new friendships with the Native Americans as well as the hidden romance that develops between Jane and a sailor named Jehu. There is so much excitement in the story for readers to get lost in as they read. This book which is carefully researched by Holm portrays real-life incidents in pioneer life that are sad yet very entertaining. I would recommend this book for classroom use and for readers who really enjoy curling up to a page turner!

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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Like all of Jennifer Holm's books, this is orginal, witty, and very clever. I cannot wait until part 3 comes out.

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Summary: Boston Jane
Review: Sixteen year old Jane Peck is on the adventure of a life time. When Jane was a young girl she was what you would call a trouble maker - tomboy. Her dresses were stained with cheeries from pie, and she liked to throw rotten apples and cow dung at carriages! This all changed, however, when William, a young man who came to help her father with his work. William suggests that Jane should go to a finishing school and learn the "proper" way to do things. Jane, wanting to gain his approval, begs her father to let her attend the school. He agrees and she becomes into a very "proper" young women. A few years later she recieves a letter from William, who had moved to Oregon. The letter asked her to marry him and join him in Oregon. Defying her father's wishes she and her maid embarked on a 5 month journey on a boat where she meets many people headed for the same location. Among them there was a handsome sailor, a boring priest, and a drunk doctor who all helped to make her trip a little more interesting! When she does arrive she finds out that her fiance has left on a errand for the governor and that she must stay in a cabin infested with flees and dirty men until he returns. Jane experiences many things during his absence, such as having trouble with Indians, living with a bunch of men who don't appreciate her, and trying to stay proper all the time! This is a really good book if you like some humor, a little romance, and a lot of adventures.

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Summary: Boston Jane Review
Review: This book is mainly about a young girl who strugles to become a lady. It all starts when Jane (the main character) is made fun by a girl named Sally because she wasn't very lady like. Jane soon tires of being tormented and decides to join a young ladys academy to become more lady like. A man named William, that works with her father, decides to move to the frontier. William and Jane exchange letters for a long while, and she continues to tell him of her proggress at the academy, when finally he asks her to come to the frontier and be his wife. Jane can't wait to go, but her father doesn't want her to leave. After months of begging her father, he decides to let her go. She soon writes him a letter accepting his proposal, but making the wedding dress took longer than she had planned. She sends him a letter telling him she will be late, he fails to recieve the letter. When she arrives in the frontier he isn't there. Jane must learn to cook and survive on her own, she also must learn to give up some of the rules of being a lady.
I found this book to be very enjoyable. I liked how she handled her problems about having to change her way of life. I liked how the characters developed throughout the story. People who like historical fictions will enjoy it more that others, but it's really a book for everyone.