Our only May Amelia

Book info: Our only May Amelia (Hardcover, 261 pages – Thorndike Press, 2000) – Thorndike Press, 2000. Language: Eng.

Condition: Good

It is 1899, and 12 year old May Amelia Jackson is told that she's the only girl to be born on the Nasel River in Washington. She has seven older brothers, and she can't understand why she's constantly being scolded for just doing the things that her brothers do all the time. Pappa tells her she's a Miracle, which is why she has to be careful, but May Amelia suspects that he just doesn't like girls. When he gets mad he says that he hopes the baby in Mamma's belly turns out to be another boy because he can't handle another May Amelia. But May Amelia hopes for a little sister.