Jennifer L. Holm is the author of the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia and of the historical novels Boston Jane: An Adventure and Boston Jane: Wilderness Days. The Creek is her first contemporary novel. She creates her unforgettable heroines in New York, where she shares a home with her husband and her cat.

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Jane Peck enrolls in a Young LadiesU Academy to turn herself into the perfect bride. But when her marriage proposal strands Jane with no fianc in sight she must learn to rely on herself. The first volume of the sparkling new Boston Jane historical adventure trilogy, by the author of the Newbery Honor Book "Our Only May Amelia." [Edit review] [Delete review]

Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington Territory.

Thrown upon her wits in the wild, Jane must determine for herself whether she is truly proper Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia, faultless young lady and fiancée, or Boston Jane, as the Chinook dub her, fearless and loyal woman of the frontier.

An exciting new novel from Jennifer L. Holm, author of the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia.

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