May Amelia takes over the care of the infant she has named Amy Alice. May Amelia's mother becomes ill afterward, suffering from a fever that makes her unable to care for the infant. May Amelia's mother gives birth suddenly one cold morning on the way home from church. Grandmother Patience hits May Amelia when she believes she is being improper and one night breaks her doll for refusing to give in to her unfair commands. Grandmother Patience is a cruel, impatient woman who has a particular dislike for May Amelia. Not long after Kaarlo returns to the family, Grandmother Patience comes to live with them. Kaarlo runs away for a short time, but May Amelia talks him into coming home despite the fact that they have never really gotten along.
May Amelia's brother, Isaiah, has named all the sheep after their neighbors and everyone mistakes his emergency call for the sheep as one for a neighbor's mother.Ī short time later, Kaarlo, May Amelia's cousin who has been raised as her brother for the last seven years, learns that his family has died in an epidemic. When May Amelia returns home, there is excitement when one of the sheep breaks its back. May Amelia finds the city exciting as well, especially the unique mix of people she sees on the streets.
At Aunt Alice's, May Amelia admires her aunt's fancy belongings and decadent food. When Aunt Alice returns to Astoria, May Amelia is allowed to go along with three of her brothers in order to do some shopping for her pregnant mother. One aunt gives May Amelia a store bought doll, the fanciest gift she has ever received. At home, May Amelia finds her favorite aunts and uncle waiting for her. May Amelia is convinced her father does not love her because he is constantly lamenting her behavior. On her twelfth birthday it is Wilbert, her favorite brother, who brings her home after she decides to run away because of a squabble with her father over an impromptu trip to Armstrong's logging camp.
May Amelia has seven brothers, all older than her. Our Only May Amelia is a touching story of one girl's struggle to find where she belongs in her family, a story that many readers will find they can relate to. For this reason, May Amelia tends to dress and play like a boy as well as cause the same amount, if not more, trouble than her brothers. May Amelia is the only daughter in a family of eight children and the only girl among the Finnish families on the Nasel. The novel is about a Finnish family that has settled on the Nasel River in Washington State.
Our Only May Amelia is a Newberry Award winning novel by writer Jennifer L.
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