Our Only May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm

Dec 2007 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Emmy Rossum

About this audiobook

She may be a miracle,
but she’s no Proper Young Lady!

It isn’t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it’s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can’t seem to abide her family’s insistence that she behave like a Proper Young Lady. Not when there’s fishing to be done, sheep to be herded, and real live murderers to be captured! May is sure she could manage better if only there were at least one other girl living along the banks of the Nasel River. And now that Mama’s going to have a baby, maybe there’s hope. . . .

Ratings and reviews

Lovely story. Warms my heart since I was a child, growing up just an hour away from Astoria.

It needs to be free

About the author

Jennifer L. Holm is the grandniece of Alice Amelia Holm, a Finnish-American girl born on the Nasel River in Washington state during the nineteenth century. The recent discovery of her grandaunt’s diary and her ancestors’ adventures in the Pacific Northwest inspired the character of May Amelia. Ms. Holm also wrote the Newbery Honor book Penny From Heaven, which is available on audio from Listening Library.