American Girl: Beforever
7 primary works • 38 total works
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Book 6
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
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.
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.
Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War.
The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.
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.