Boston Jane: Wilderness Days by Jennifer Holm, 2010 Yearling BooksStill in Shoalwater Bay, Washington, Jane Peck has been abandoned by her fiance. She makes plans to travel back home, but receives a letter making those plans impossible: her father, ill throughout the first novel, has died.
With nothing left to return to, Jane decides to stay in Shoalwater Bay. But she is the only woman in the settlement, her closest companions in a nearby Chinook village. Working for her keep turns the somewhat over-emotional Jane sour and her ex-fiance's treatment makes her suspicious of the men around her. When Mr. and Mrs. Fink arrive, Jane is hopeful of a companion and friend.
But Mrs. Fink is a little too charming: the men of Shoalwater Bay clamour to do her bidding and ignore their spunky Jane, while still expecting her to care for them. Even a proposal from Jehu, an attractive young man Jane met on the ship from Boston, is fraught with frustration and suspicion.
A mysterious man with a valuable gold watch offers Jane the watch for her caring and hospitality and she finally has the means to go home to civilization. But the man may have something sinister in store for her new home, can Jane abandon her new friends to return to a place she never belonged?
Though she found the adventure she had always dreamed of it turns out, adventure wasn't what Jane was searching for. Early teen readers who enjoy adventure, romance, and a touch of spook will find Wilderness Days an engaging novel with a frustratingly realistic lead in Jane.
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