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Boston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm
Boston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm









Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" series (HarperCollins). Recommend this title to readers who enjoyed L. This glimpse into Northwestern pioneer life is based on primary and secondary sources, including Holm's own family history. A touch of romance between Jane and Jehu, the sailor she met on her journey west, helps move the story to a satisfying conclusion. She surprises some community members when she speaks up for a wrongly accused Chinook who is charged with stealing whiskey, and she bravely rescues a child of Chinook and white heritage who is unfairly placed with an abusive foster parent. William Baldt, the man who asked Jane to marry him in the first book, is back and threatens to take her land. Her old rival, Sally Biddle, disembarks ship and immediately takes every opportunity to embarrass and alienate Jane just as she had done back in Philadelphia. In this third installment, the frontier settlement has grown into a town and Jane works as a concierge in the hotel. Stories of the west.Grade 6 Up-Fans of this series, set in Shoalwater Bay in Washington Territory in the 1850s, will find Jane, now 17, to be just as strong and admirable a character as ever. Necessity to complete the Boston Jane Trilogy and an asset to YAĬollections that serve readers with an interest in pioneer and frontier Vivacious attitude, even when she smells like a skunk. Woman facing any challenge that comes her way with a comical poise and Throughout the novel, Jane is the embodiment of a strong, spirited Something more in her life, until a stranger comes into the settlementĪnd Jane is forced to embark on a treacherous manhunt that eventually Strength support her through her new trials. Her friendship with the Chinook people and her inner Of the past, the tribulations of a budding romance, and living in aįlea-ridden home. As Jane copes withĮveryday living, she must endure tending to filthy men, her insecurities Philadelphia is not of much use in her new home. Instruction from Miss Hepplewhite at the Young Ladies Academy in Jane soon realizes that she is in a very different world and her Strange men after her supposed fiance deserted her to marry another. Up house in the New Frontier to fend for herself among a settlement of In the second installment of the Boston Jane series, Jane has set Boston Jane: Wilderness Days." Retrieved from Boston Jane: Wilderness Days." The Free Library.











Boston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm