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Summary: Just be yourself
Review: This book was very good. At times it got sad, and at times it made me want to read more. When I was reading the book, the chapters had a lot of pages and I was getting frustrated about it. When I first started this book, I was wondering, "What is this book about" but once I read more I began to see the picture. The picture was just to be yourself. Nobody has to tell you how you are supposed to act. Just be yourself. This book taught me a lot of different things like that you can be anything you want to be, it doesn't matter what other people think of you, and believe in yourself. I would recommend this book to anyone who is an independent girl.
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Summary: Our Only May Amelia
Review: This book tells everything in a beautiful,explicit manner.The clear painting that is shown tells how May Amelia feels.From the good things to the sad,bad events.Plot is focused well,and easily understood and easy to follow events.This is a very EXCELLENT book.Holm gives a good story as in her other good books.A must read for Historical fiction lovers and fans of 'Boston Jane'.
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Summary: Our Only May Amelia
Review: As a well-read parent reviewing literature for my pre-adolescent children, I must say I was sincerely disappointed. I found the story lacking in continuity of thought and constantly jumping around between different events. There is also some harsh language and a horribly cruel grandmother who could be frightening to children. Some of May's adventures were interesting, such as hunting for a murderer and getting chased up a tree by a bear and nearly drowning in the Nasel river. I felt that the characters lacked the warmth that draws you in and makes you feel as if you're living the adventures yourself. I found it overall quite shallow and definitely lacking the necesarry components to qualify as a classic work of American Literature.
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Summary: Our only May Amelia Review
Review: I thought that this book was very good! I wanted to keep on reading after every chapter and couldn't bare to put it down! I finished it in 3 days! It was like Holes in the sense that you liked it but you didn't know why. I find this girl like me because she is a tom boy and loves adventure! I would definately recomend this book!
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Summary: May Amelia
Review: This book is boy crazy! In the beginning May gets sick of her seven brothers. May's mother gets pregnant. They all want it to be a girl! Later in the story something bad happens to her. May runs away to her aunts and uncles house. She stays there with her brother and they have many adventures. This book will send your nerves on end. by Jennifer
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Summary: It was Okay
Review: The plot of Our only May Amelia was excellent. But for all those people out there who are obsessed with gramatics I wouldn't reccomend this book for you. The story is written in the voice of a pioneer and when I say that I mean they say "'spose" and "ain't" a lot. Holm also skips from subject to subject and then back agin a lot and to me this was bothersome. The other thing that drove me nuts is she didn't use quotation marks. The last thing that really bugged me was that when someone yelled or said a phrase she would capitalize the words. For instance if Holm wanted May to say thats not fair she would write it like this: Thats Not Fair! All in all if this sort of thing doesn't bother you I stongly encourage you to read it. However if this does drive you nuts like it does me just forget it.
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Summary: A Great Book for Pre-Teens
Review: This book is a woundeful book! It is a great book for those years before teenage years when girls say boys are sick. This book is about a girl and her journay through the early days of American (1800-1900) I would give this book a 5 star because it can take you to that wounderful place only a good book can.
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Summary: A hard life
Review: May Amelia is a funny 12 year old Finish girl with a imagination of her own. She is brave and strong and has problems with her 7 brothers.And on top of that she is the only girl on the Nasel River. She cooks, cleans, and helps out in the fields; her mother has a babe in her stomach and can not move around. On top of everthing else May Amelia has to take up her mothers duties. Ameila prays and hopes that the babe is a girl for she will not be the only girl in the Nasel. Her mother tries to tell her that she needs to be lady-like but Ameila does not care. She eats berries, climbs trees, and fences like a boy. But, her life is about to change her Grandmother Patience is going to live with her family, man is she mean her name does not decribe her at all! she hits Amelia and calls her a liar and a thef and makes Amila do everthing the way grandmother tells her. And her father does nothing about it and her mother tries to stop it but Grandmother patience tells her that Amelia is not a lady and not respectful. Finally, the baby decides to come on the Nasel and everthing is very diffecult. A girl! the babe is a girl finally luck changes but is she talking to soon?
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Summary: Ms. Rossum brings an unforgettable character to life
Review: While agreeing with all the positive comments of the other reviewers, I'd like to recommend the *audiobook* version of this wonderful story. Emmy Rossum's reading has just the right ring of tomboyish flair and derring-do, while managing to also convey a tremendous heart. (Ms. Rossum was spot-on perfect in the film "Song Catcher" and added important layers in it just as she does to this book. I mark her as an interpreter to watch.) Using her voice so artfully, "our only" May Amelia begins to win her way into our hearts. What an unforgettable character. Rossum's pacing and idiosyncratic turns of speech seem unselfconsciously natural, and her authentic-sounding rising vocal inflections paint indelible word pictures in the mind. Although a rebellious rascal, May Amelia is actually behaving in the only way open to a curious, intelligent, imaginative girl in turn-of-the-century Northwest. This kind of character, as May Amelia, will forever live in the voice of Ms. Rossum, to me. I could even detect flavorings of the woman she (the character) would become. Whatever problems a reader might have with the misspellings and quirky typography of the printed version, this audiobook will naturally overcome. Makes it a perfect choice for problem readers, to get them interested in books and hooked on their imaginations. Also great as a travel companion on long trips. Importantly, the audiobook is an unabridged version of this captivating historical, semiautobiographical (based on real diaries) novel, with an afterword by the author in her own voice.
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Summary: Interesting and Spunky
Review: This book is really great. The characters are well developed, the storyline is twisted and unpredictable, albeit sad. It really shows the heart of a girl that is surrounded completely by men and boys, and therefore thinks like them, and how she struggles both to become and avoid becoming a Proper Young Lady.
The grammar is bad, but that only adds to the charm and realistic approach to an acoount written by a Finnish immigrant. I think that this book is worth the time and money.
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