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[ 책 소개 ]
* 2000년 Newbery Honor 수상작
* Parents' Choice Silver Award
* 2000 Notable Children's Books
* Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999
핀란드에서 이민온 메이의 가족은 미국 서북부의 워싱턴주 네이젤 강가에 정착해서 목축과 농사를 합니다. 메이의 가족은 모두 8명의 자녀를 낳았는데 메이는 외동딸이었어요. 모두 메이가 딸로 태어난 것을 기적이라고 불렀죠. 메이의 유일한, 그리고 가장 큰 소원은 여동생을 갖는 것이었어요. 드디어 어머니가 임신을 하고...
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Mass Market Paperback - 272 pages
ISBN: 0064408566
책 크기 : 13.2cm x 19.2cm
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Book Description
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....
00-01 Utah Book Award (Gr. 3-6) and00-01 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Bk Award Masterlist
Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Newbery Honor Book, and 2000 Notable Children's Books (ALA)
Synopsis
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
From the Back Cover
"--the robust characterizations captivate, the lilting dialogue twangs, and the sharply first-person narrative gives the material authority and polish." --Kirkus reviews
"This novel is not to be missed" -Publishers Weekly, starred review
Annotation
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
From the Publisher
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999
It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899 —particularly when you are the only girl ever born to 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 hearded, and real live murderers to be captured! All May needs is 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.
Publisher's Weekly
"An unforgettable heroine intelligently narrates Holm's debut novel set in 1899 Washington State," said PW in its Best Books of 1999 citation. Ages 9-up. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Children's Literature
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm may be a miracle to her family but her goal is to be like her seven brothers. Inspired by the diary of her Finnish-American grandaunt, Ms. Holm brings to life a fearless, high-spirited girl at the turn of the last century. From fishing with her brothers, to helping them make fishnets, to convincing the loggers that she can warn villagers by yelling when the logs are coming down the river, she is her own person. She mothers her baby sister when her mother is ill and when the baby dies, she is devastated. She runs away to her aunt and uncle's in Astoria and stays there for many months working through her grief. The story is filled with action, details of life in Washington State in 1899, and family love. It is not surprising that it was awarded a Newbery Honor Medal. 1999, HarperCollins, Ages 10 up, $22.00, $15.95 and $4.95. Reviewer: Jan Lieberman
KLIATT
To quote KLIATT's Sept. 2000 review of the Listening Library audiobook edition: This Newbery Honor book and Silver Award-winning story, told in first person by Finnish immigrant May Amelia Jackson, age 12, was inspired by Holm's grandaunt's diary. The story of the family, which consists of May Amelia, seven older brothers, and another baby "in my mother's belly," is set in a difficult, dangerous, ethnically mixed world of logging camps and farms along the Nasel River in 1899 Washington. May Amelia, who attends school on an island, is beset with chores and adult responsibilities but finds time for adventures like encountering a bear and almost falling through a swinging bridge. May Amelia experiences death, injury, and the effects of adult failings. A nearby port town seems the most sophisticated of cities. May Amelia relates in various ways to her brothers. (She sleeps with one, but in the story, this is related to the crowded conditions in which the family lives, not to sex.) Though she is admonished to be "a proper lady," she grows up with few female role models. She begins to cope with coming-of-age issues... [a] spunky 12-year-old heroine to whom youngsters 10 and up will certainly relate. KLIATT Codes: J—Recommended for junior high school students. 1999, HarperTrophy, 256p, bibliog, 20cm, 98-47504, $5.95. Ages 13 to 15. Reviewer: Edna M. Boardman; Retired Lib., Media Spec., Minot, ND, May 2001 (Vol. 35 No. 3)
School Library Journal
Gr 5-8-May is the only girl born in the sparsely populated area along Washington state's Nasel River at the end of the 19th century, and the youngest in a family with seven boys. Inspired by her grandaunt's diary and after researching the Finnish-American community of that place and time, Jennifer L. Holm wrote this Newbery Honor book (HarperCollins, 1999). It combines historical fiction with coming-of-age concerns as May Amelia Jackson relates everyday activities such as tending the sheep and helping her pregnant mother with household chores. She also includes straightforward descriptions of family conflicts, the stabbing of a local woman, and encounters with bears and a mountain lion. Most devastating for May is the loss of her baby sister and the cruelty of her paternal grandmother, but the girl's mischievous spirit adds many amusing moments. Emmy Rossum does a marvelous narration, handling both the light-hearted and the somber with youthful vocal veracity. Though the book has a large cast of characters and a variety of evocative events, the first-person narrative style works well in a recorded format. Clearly marked cassettes with good sound quality are ready for circulation in a sturdy, attractive plastic case. This is a useful addition to middle school and public library collections.-Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
May Amelia, the feisty lovable heroine of Holm's fetching novel, "ain't no proper young lady." A 12-year-old girl with an adventurous spirit and "a nose for trouble," May Amelia is the youngest of eight children and the only girl. Life in the rough world of logging camps and farming in the wilderness of the state of Washington in 1899 is not easy, and May Amelia and her brothers have to work hard to keep farm and family going. May Amelia dreams of being a sailor and traveling to China, but is hampered by everyone, especially her strict Finnish-born father, who is always yelling at her for "doing what the boys are doing." The book chronicles May Amelia's adventures with her brothers, a brush with a wild bear, conflicts with her mean-tempered grandmother, and the long-awaited birth of a baby sister who later dies in her sleep. The story, which is episodic and somewhat shapeless, careens along before stopping without much resolution. Still, the robust characterizations captivate, the lilting dialogue twangs, and the sharply individual first-person narrative gives the material authority and polish. (Fiction. 10-12)
Amazon.com
Twelve-year-old May Amelia is too busy chasing sheep, fishing for salmon, and keeping pace with the antics of her seven Finnish brothers to bother wearing a dress or scrubbing behind her ears. Unfortunately, she's being pressured to clean up her act. "It seems like everyone is conspiring to make me a Proper Young Lady," she observes in frustration. "I do not think being a proper Young Lady sounds like any fun at all."
The old-fashioned language in this historical novel seems strained at times, and the quirky use of capital letters is an unnecessary distraction, but this book is still a lot of fun. Why? For one thing, the story is set in the far, untamed reaches of the West at the turn of the 20th century, and offers encounters with Chinook Indians, dark forests, and the twists and turns of the Nasel River. And then there is May Amelia--as headstrong as rushing water, and the only female born on this stretch of the river since her family can remember. She is known (when she's not deep into trouble) as the Miracle. Will this feisty female ever settle down and become the little lady everyone expects her to be? Will her pregnant mother give birth to another girl so May Amelia can finally have a sister? You'll have to read the whole story to find out. (Ages 10 and older) --Maria Dolan
Parents' Choice?
In 1899, May Amelia lives on the Nasel River in Washington with seven brothers. Running around in overalls, she has no interest in being a proper young lady. She views all warnings as challenges. A delightful, thoroughly adventurous character. A 1999 Silver Award Winner. Ages 10 and up. (Kemie Nix, Parents' Choice?).
Booklist
May Amelia, age 12, lives with her stern Finnish father, pregnant mother, and seven brothers in the state of Washington in the late 1800s. She records the details of her life in a diary using the present tense and a folksy speech pattern: "I go about fixing dinner real quiet-like so they can talk and tell secrets." Aside from quarrels with her adoptive brother Kaarlo, May lives a relatively bucolic life until the arrival of her shrewish grandmother, who finds fault with everything May says and does. The author bases her story on her aunt's real diary, so the everyday details of life among Finnish immigrants add a nice specificity to the background, and May is appealingly vivacious. However, the lack of quotation marks, the overuse of certain expressions (among them, "indeed"), the length, and sometimes slow pacing may make this a secondary purchase. Susan Dove Lempke
[ 작가 소개 ]
Jennifer L. Holm is the grandniece of Alice Amelia Holm, a Finnish-American girl born on the Nasel River in Washington state during the nineteenthcentury.The recent discovery of her grandaunt's diary and her ancestors' adventures in the Pacific Northwest inspired the character of May Amelia.
Ms. Holm produces television commercials and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her next book. |
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