Valerie Tripp

Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamaa died a year ago. When Mamaa's sister, Taia Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But Taia Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mamaa never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of Taia Dolores's changes...

This enchanting American Girl story collection features the spunky heroine of the critically acclaimed movie Kit Kittredge. It is 1934, and the Great Depression has found the Kittredges. First, Kit's father loses his job, then the family is forced to take in boarders to make ends meet. A spellbinding book, Kit will also help listeners understand a difficult time in American history. ". short, fast-moving, and involving stories in the tradition of...

Christmas in Williamsburg means a dancing party at the Governor's Palace for Felicity, but her mother becomes very ill and cannot finish the special blue gown.

While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

In Williamsburg in 1774, 9-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

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.

Meet Felicity Merriman, a nine-year-old girl who's as spirited and independent as the American colonies she lives in. In 1774, Felicity's hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia, is buzzing with rumors: will the colonies soon break free from England's rule? Patriots like Felicity's father don't think it's fair to pay taxes to the King of England for things like tea that they buy in America. Loyalists like Felicity's grandfather and her best friend Elizabeth...

During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.

Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

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.