Book 1

Meet Kit

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2000
When her father's business closes because of the Great Depression forcing Kit to make changes in her life, the nine-year-old responds with resourcefulness.

Book 2

Kit Learns a Lesson

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2000
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.

Book 3

Kit's Surprise

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2000
In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

Book 4

Happy Birthday Kit

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2001
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.

Book 5

Kit Saves the Day

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2001
Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.

Book 6

Changes for Kit!

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 2001
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.

Book 6

Changes for Felicity

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 July 1992

Molly's Surprise

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 August 1986
Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.

Josefina Learns a Lesson

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1997

The One and Only

by Valerie Tripp

Published 27 August 2015


Molly Saves the Day

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 June 1988
Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War.

Happy Birthday, Josefina!

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1998

The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.

Meet Josefina

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1997

Josefina's Surprise

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1997

Josefina Saves the Day

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1998

The Glowing Heart

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 March 2016
When a dashing man from Mexico City brings Tia Dolores a ruby ring for Christmas, Josefina notices that things start going wrong and she decides to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Kit Boxed Set with Game

by Valerie Tripp

Published 30 August 2010

Molly Learns a Lesson

by Valerie Tripp

Published 1 September 1986