May is helping out on a neighbor's Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it's hard to be separated from her family by 15 long, unfamiliar miles. Then the unthinkable happens: May is abandoned. Trapped in a tiny snow-covered sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the oncoming winter. While fighting to survive, May's memories of her struggles with reading at school come back to haunt…
4.3Overall Score
May B.
Reader's Review Written all in verse, this book is a realistic and haunting look at young girl's survival through the winter on her own. It includes historical accounts of prairie life. The ...
Reader’s Review
Written all in verse, this book is a realistic and haunting look at young girl’s survival through the winter on her own. It includes historical accounts of prairie life. The book is well written and readers will grow to love the heroine, and her struggles with what we now would call dyslexia (but was misunderstood at the time). However the story of her being abandoned by the adults in her life, and her harrowing experiences may be disturbing for younger or sensitive readers.
To look out for
- Islamic Values: Main character is sent to work for another family by her parents with no way to contact her parents. Her mother does not show much emotion towards her. She works for a woman who hates prairie life and eventually runs away from her home and her husband.
- Violence: Main character often mentions the possibility of being devoured by a wolf
- Language: In frustration main character uses the words stupid and danged.
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