1941, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
ISBN: 0690040784
215 pages
Annotation: A girl grows up at Chesapeake Bay believing she is disliked while everyone else loves her twin sister.
Summary: This story is about a girl named Louise (who is called Wheeze by her sister) and her twin sister Caroline. Louise feels that she is overshadowed by her pretty and talented Caroline. Louise struggles with finding herself and finding the roll that she needs to live while living on Chesapeake Bay during and after the war. She struggles with her inability to do what she wants to do because she is a girl. Due to the world war she is allowed to show that she can excel in a man’s world of crabbing, although she is still jealous of her talented sister Caroline. This jealousy is fed from many experiences and opportunities that is seemed to be given to Caroline. Louise learns many things in this familial struggle and plans on ways to leave the island they live on. At the end of the story we meet Louise living in a valley where she is working as a midwife-seemingly happy and content.
Rank: 4. 5 Stars-The struggles of a girl that many can relate to.
