Helpful Score: 3
My daughter loves the American Girl books. This is the first book in the "Kit" series. A fun way to learn more about historical time periods. Kit is growing up in the depression. ( 1930's )
Helpful Score: 2
Kit Kittredge is a nine year old girl with a nose for news. But since most of the new in the early 1930's is about the hard times of the Depression, Kits writes her own newspaper stories. She report on what happens at home while Dad is at work-like the day Mother invites fussy Mrs. Howard and her son to stay with them. Kit is excited to have a boy her own age to play with, but Stirling is disappointment and he causes Kit nothing but trouble. Then when Dad loses his business becasue of the Depression, Mother gets a brainstorm that turns the Kittredge household upside down.
Helpful Score: 1
My daughter and I are really enjoying this series. It sort of helps put today into perspective AND understandable terms. Kit is a great character.
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This is about Kit who is living in the depression.
Catherine D. (kadouds) reviewed Meet Kit: 1934 (American Girls: Kit, Bk 1) on + 84 more book reviews
I love Kit! She is clever.
The first in the Kit series
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Great American Girls Collection Series---Book 1
Beautiful Git copy.
Meet Kit in Cincinnati , Ohio during the great depression.1934. Kit's dad loses his business. Her mother moves Kit and her brother out of their rooms and turns their home into a boarding house.Kit loves to write and on an old typewriter writes news stories.The Great Depression turns their lives upside down. When will Dad get a job and things be normal again for Kit? This series really looks at the Great Depression and all the problems it causes.In the back of the book are new stories, Pictures and facts about this difficult time in American History. This series is not just for kids, it's for adults as well .I read this series too
Meet Kit in Cincinnati , Ohio during the great depression.1934. Kit's dad loses his business. Her mother moves Kit and her brother out of their rooms and turns their home into a boarding house.Kit loves to write and on an old typewriter writes news stories.The Great Depression turns their lives upside down. When will Dad get a job and things be normal again for Kit? This series really looks at the Great Depression and all the problems it causes.In the back of the book are new stories, Pictures and facts about this difficult time in American History. This series is not just for kids, it's for adults as well .I read this series too
