Winter on her own
This is one of my favorite books. I first read it in middleschool, and more than twenty years later I am still enjoying.
Set in the 1830's, Amantha, 17, is brought by her father, a backwoods farmer, to spend the winter with the family of a tinsmith to help his daughters paint his tinware. There is romantic tension as well. Amantha leaves her beau behind without a chance to make up from an arguement, and also has to deal with her attraction to the nephew of the tinsmith who spends the winter there as well. Elizabeth Howard did a very good job of showing the difference between a man ov character, and a shelfish man willing to use a girl to suit his whim. Over all an exellent book, with a surprise ending. Well written to the period as well.
