Wow, this book for children features a moment where a young girl wakes up to find her baby sister dead and cold in the crib next to her - completely harrowing!

This was a fun book to read as a Washingtonian, it was fun how the author looked into her own family history and wrote a fictionalized version of a history much like her own. I didn't know how much Finnish settlers were really prominent in the early European settlements along the Washington coast, so that was interesting!

This was a perfectly lovely little bite-sized historical novel for kids, but I don't think it will linger in my mind much.