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If You Liked Kit Kittredge, Try...

November 15, 2018 | strande

 

If you enjoyed reading about Kit Kittredge, the American Girl character from 1934, you might be interested in these titles.

Fiction

The mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
Sweet home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg
Also available in: e-book
R my name is Rachel by Patricia Reilly Giff
Also available in: e-audiobook
Out of the dust by Karen Hesse
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook
Full of Beans by Jennifer L Holm
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook
Better to wish : the first generation by Ann M. Martin
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
The dollhouse magic by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Tru & Nelle by Greg Neri
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D Taylor
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | video
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook

Nonfiction

The Loch Ness monster by Erin Peabody
Fabulous fashions of the 1930s by Felicia Lowenstein Niven
You wouldn't want to work on the Hoover Dam! : an explosive job you'd rather not do by Ian Graham
From strawberry to jam by Lisa Owings
Pass go and collect $200 : the real story of how Monopoly was invented by Tanya Lee Stone
Welcome to Kit's world, 1934 : growing up during America's Great Depression by Harriet Brown
Crash : the Great Depression and the fall and rise of America by Marc Favreau
Did anything good come out of the Great Depression? by Emma Marriott
A primary source history of the Dust Bowl by Rebecca Langston-George
The great American dust bowl by Don Brown

Biographies

Missing Millie Benson : the secret case of the Nancy Drew ghostwriter and journalist by Julie Rubini
Bylines : a photobiography of Nellie Bly by Sue Macy
Sir Charlie Chaplin : the funniest man in the world by Sid Fleischman
Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper by Ann Malaspina
Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
Also available in: e-book
Sky high : the true story of Maggie Gee by Marissa Moss
Dorothea Lange : the photographer who found the faces of the Depression by Carole Boston Weatherford
Eleanor quiet no more : the life of Eleanor Roosevelt by Doreen Rappaport
Daredevil : the daring life of Betty Skelton by Meghan McCarthy
Also available in: video | e-video
Shirley Temple by John Bankston
Yours for justice, Ida B. Wells the darling life of crusading journalist by Philip Dray