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Genre: Historical | Age: Middle Grade (10+) | Buy: Amazon or BookShop | ⭐ See star rating

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Rose spends the year living with her aunt E.J. and attending high school in Louisiana.

Personal Review:

This was a very different perspective of Rose’s life! Her experience living with her aunt E.J. in Louisiana was so different from her time growing up in and near Mansfield.

My kids and I enjoyed this book, but possibly not as much as when Rose was younger. It was interesting, though, how the topic of women’s suffrage was so prevalent in their time. It really helped give us some perspective on the expectations of how women were supposed to act and what were acceptable ways for them to pass their time.

Rose was extremely clever and worked very hard to succeed in her own way in this book, even while dealing with some of the extras that come with being a teenage girl. We all admired how hard she worked and how she tried to balance her social life as well. We really loved spending time with Odile and her family – that provided yet another interesting perspective to the story!

Happy reading!

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