Friday, March 22, 2013

Meet Kit, An American Girl / Valerie Tripp / 74 pages / Frist Book in a Series

Meet Kit, an American Girl, Book 1
Margaret Mildred Kitridge ( Kit) live in Depression era Cincinnati.  Kit aspires to be a newspaper reporter and often greets her father with a self-published broadside when he comes home from work at night.  When her father loses his job, Kit's family turn their home into a boarding house to make ends meet.  Kit must surrender her bedroom.  This first book in the Kit, American Girl series has an excellent "Looking Back" section that details facts about the Great Depression.  It is a quick, easy read sure to inspire young readers.

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