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Meet Kit: An American Girl

by Valerie Tripp

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.

Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)

Kit's Surprise: A Christmas Story, 1934 (The American Girls Collection, Book 3)

by Valerie Tripp

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.

Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection)

Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection)

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.

Young Wizards: Book 7

Wizard's Holiday

by Diane Duane

Rest and relaxation--that's what Nita thinks she's going to get when she and her partner-wizard Kit go on a wizardly "cultural exchange" program. But nothing about wizardry--not even vacation--is ever quite that simple!

Young Wizards: Book 6

A Wizard Alone

by Diane Duane

While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other--he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.

Happy Birthday Kit: A Springtime Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

Happy Birthday Kit: A Springtime Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

by Valerie Tripp

Reviewed with Valerie Tripp's Kit Saves the Day. Gr. 3-5. Children reading the Depression-era series about Kit from the American Girls collection will welcome books 4 and 5. In Happy Birthday , Kit has mixed feelings when Aunt Millie comes to live with her family. On the one hand, she enjoys Aunt Millie's affectionate, cheerful manner and thrifty ideas. On the other hand, Kit is sometimes embarrassed by her... (more)

Young Wizards: Book 5

The Wizard's Dilemma

by Diane Duane

Not everything can be fixed with magic--young wizards Kit and Nita are having such a tough time coping with adolescence, they go their separate ways. But then Nita gets some bad news: Her mother has cancer, and it may be incurable--by medical or magical means.

Changes for Kit: A Winter Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

Changes for Kit: A Winter Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

by Valerie Tripp

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.

Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

by Valerie Tripp

Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.

Kit Kittredge - An American Girl

The Great Depression hits home for nine-year-old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee* Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first-ever American Girl theatrical movie. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders paying houseguests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mothers lockbox containing all their... (more)

Hairum-Scarum: A Comedy for You and Your Friends to Perform (American Girl Theatre Kits)

Hairum-Scarum: A Comedy for You and Your Friends to Perform (American Girl Theatre Kits)

by Christina Hamlett

A humorous play about an unusual hair salon where all the clients are well-know storybook characters. Includes six copies of the script, a production guide, a poster, and twenty tickets.

Berlitz German in 30 Days (Berlitz in 30 Days)

Berlitz German in 30 Days (Berlitz in 30 Days)

by Angelika G. Beck

Berlitz German in 30 Days is designed to provide a sound basic knowledge of everyday language in a very short time. The package includes a 288 page illustrated course book and one 60 minute audio CD of the dialogs. Topics include meeting and greeting people, shopping, eating out and getting around. Taking care of your health and handling emergencies. The coursebook includes 30 lessons consisting of a dialog or... (more)

Rainstick Pack (Sacred Earth Series)

by Rizzoli

Life Visioning Kit

by Michael Bernard Beckwith

The spiritual laws of the universe are waiting to work for you--once you know how to apply them. With Life Visioning, Michael Bernard Beckwith offers a complete kit to help you consciously manifest your soul's highest potential, and unfold a life of plenitude, purpose, creativity, and lasting fulfillment. Life Visioning includes: * Two CDs with guided practices for expressing and receiving infinite love, wisdom,... (more)

Kit's Story Collection (American Girls Collection)

Kit's Story Collection (American Girls Collection)

by Valerie Tripp

Girls can enjoy all six beloved Kit stories in one keepsake volume. Set in 1934, each story reveals more of this resourceful girl who has bright hopes during the dark days of the Great Depression. The richly illustrated hardcover offers a glimpse into Kit's world. Inside, this book features even more full-color illustrations and words of inspiration that will delight girls who love Kit.

Welcome to Kit's World, 1934 : Growing Up During America's Great Depression (The American Girls Collection)

Welcome to Kit's World, 1934 : Growing Up During America's Great Depression (The American Girls Collection)

by Harriet Brown

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

Young Wizards: Book 2

Deep Wizardry

by Diane Duane

Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard. I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her... (more)

Young Wizards: Book 8

Wizards at War

by Diane Duane

Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday, looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to fall over the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards of Earth and many other planets find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike against an invasion of a kind they've... (more)

Young Wizards: Book 1

So You Want to Be a Wizard

by Diane Duane

Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard. I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her... (more)

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