Words to Read By

  Summary (from the publisher):   Kit's world turns upside down when Mother's friends come to stay with them and Dad loses his business. Will life ever be the same again? Review: So much fun rereading Kit's book as an adult with my kids! I loved tomboy-ish Kit with her love for reading Robin Hood, baseball, and disdain for the bedroom her mother has made totally pink. I really love how she likes to write pretend newspaper articles in the summer and greets her father with them to read. Kit is facing very real obstacles in her life as the Great Depression slowly begins to have profound impacts on her daily life in this book. My kids have never read anything about that time period before, and this was such a great way to introduce that period in our history to them.  I generally love the 'peak into the past' segment at the end of the American Girl books because they provide some real historical context and photographs to show what influenced the plot. However, this on...