Gail R. (abigailsdaughter) reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 201 more book reviews
I wasn't much impressed by the American Girls series, especially when they began advertising the dolls!
I did like the books about Kit, however, with their depiction of how people coped - or didn't cope! - with mass unemployment, poverty, bread lines, hobo jungles, runaway husbands, etc., and about the New Deal measures that were taken by the Roosevelt Administration.
Each short book (about 50 pages) ends with a brief historical section about the period, illustrated with photographs.
I may buy all six to give at Christmas to my youngest granddaughter...
I did like the books about Kit, however, with their depiction of how people coped - or didn't cope! - with mass unemployment, poverty, bread lines, hobo jungles, runaway husbands, etc., and about the New Deal measures that were taken by the Roosevelt Administration.
Each short book (about 50 pages) ends with a brief historical section about the period, illustrated with photographs.
I may buy all six to give at Christmas to my youngest granddaughter...
Marcia K. (marwan) reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 496 more book reviews
Kit hopes dad will find a new job soon. Kit won't have to get up early every morning before school to help Mother with the chores for the bothersome boarders, the people who pay to live in the Kittredges house. Best of all, Kit will have more time to write newspapers for Dad, like she used to. But when Kit helps deliver her class's Thanksgiving food basket to a soup kitchen, she realizes that the Depression has changed some things permanently and she learns a surprising lesson about being thankful.
Catherine D. (kadouds) reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 84 more book reviews
I love Kit. She has great spirit.
Susan M. reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 32 more book reviews
It was an awesome book. So far Kit is a favorite in the American Girl series.
Alice B. reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 3591 more book reviews
A great gift the hardcover 1st story in the KIt book series, Book 1 of 6. KIt is a 10 year old girl living in 1934 in Cincinnati , Ohio during the GReat Depression. Her life changes dramatically as her father loses his job, and her mother opens Kit's home as a boarding house. Kit has to move to the attic, her brother to an outdoor porch, and her parents to the sewing room, so they can rent out all their bedrooms. Kit starts raising a garden and chickens and helps her mother put 2 meals a day on the table for the boarders.
Margaret S. (morgan2010) reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 171 more book reviews
Kit learns a lesson is a school story. Nicely written.
Alice B. reviewed Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection) on + 3591 more book reviews
Beautiful gift copy.
Set in Cincinnati, OH, during the Great Depression, these books introduce fourth-grade Kit. In Meet Kit, her father must close his car dealership and join the large number of unemployed. In an effort to make ends meet, her mother takes in boarders; Mrs. Howard and her son Stirling settle into Kit's newly redecorated bedroom, while the girl makes the best of her new space in the attic. In Kit Learns a Lesson, her older brother gets a job rather than attend college, and Kit helps her mother clean. Additional boarders have moved in and there is more work than ever. When a classmate's taunts lead to an altercation, Stirling, Kit, and her best friend are punished. They must deliver food collected by the students to the local soup kitchen, and Kit is shocked to see her father on line for lunch.. Photos, reproductions, and explanations of the period follow in the back of the book.
Set in Cincinnati, OH, during the Great Depression, these books introduce fourth-grade Kit. In Meet Kit, her father must close his car dealership and join the large number of unemployed. In an effort to make ends meet, her mother takes in boarders; Mrs. Howard and her son Stirling settle into Kit's newly redecorated bedroom, while the girl makes the best of her new space in the attic. In Kit Learns a Lesson, her older brother gets a job rather than attend college, and Kit helps her mother clean. Additional boarders have moved in and there is more work than ever. When a classmate's taunts lead to an altercation, Stirling, Kit, and her best friend are punished. They must deliver food collected by the students to the local soup kitchen, and Kit is shocked to see her father on line for lunch.. Photos, reproductions, and explanations of the period follow in the back of the book.
