Meet Molly, an American Girl / Valerie Tripp / 74 pages / First Book in a Series

This is the first book in the Molly (American Girl) series.  Molly's father is away fighting in World War II and Molly's family has planted a Victory Garden to do their part for the war effort.  Molly hates the turnips produced from the garden and is told by the housekeeper that she must sit at the table until she eats them all.  (This scene brought back unpleasant childhood memories when I, too, was still sitting at the table until bedtime trying to finish disagreeable food.)