This was pretty good. A little choppy. Always interesting to see what life was like back then. May Amelia is the only girl in a family of too many boys. She is a trial to her parents and brothers. Always in scrapes, usually from curiosity, she keeps her family on their toes. She dresses in overalls (a no-no for that time), she doesn't want to do what nice girls are supposed to do. (but the family should take a look at what they have her do, she works along side the boys, plus help her pregnant mother around the house)

Set in Washington state, May Amelia lives in a Finnish settlement. She is the only girl for miles because everyone else seems to have had sons. She likes to fish and do what the boys do. She doesn't like to be told she can't do something because she is a girl. She spends a good part of the book fighting this, and her family's attitude.

All in all an interesting read. Could have been smoothed out more.