A review by amalies
Boston Jane: An Adventure by Jennifer L. Holm

5.0

If I had discovered this book as a 5-8th grader in my childhood, I would have eaten it up. As an adult, I thoroughly enjoyed everything from the historical fiction, the time period, and appreciated the things Jane learns throughout the book as she gains maturity and understanding. As a young girl Jane is a wild and playful motherless child being raised by her doctor father. At an impressionable age, she meets with a young man who leads her to think about her lack of womanly characteristics and she enters a school that teaches her the proper etiquette to be a young lady. She ends up journeying on a boat from her home in Philadelphia all the way to Oregon after becoming engaged to the young man that changed her childhood outlook on life. The rest of the book tells the adventures that befall her on her voyage and when she lands in Oregon. If I could sum up all that I learned/read recently about Grit in Angela Duckworths book, this book presents it in a fictional reading. I can't wait to give this book to my child to let her read it and also check out the next 2 books in the series.