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Really Truly Ruthie (American Girl: Kit #7) by Valerie Tripp

 

Summary (from the publisher): Ruthie Smithens, a girl who believes in fairy tales and happy endings, would do almost anything to help her best friend, Kit Kittredge, whose family has been hard hit by the Depression. But Ruthie has learned the hard way that offers of help, even between friends, are tricky. When Ruthie finds out some bad news about the Kittredges' house while at her father's bank, she has to find a way to help the Kittredges reach Kit's Aunt Millie, so that there can be at least the chance of a happy ending!

Review: I really loved that we get a book from Ruthie's perspective because she is such a great friend and a recurrent character in Kit's stories. Additionally, we get to see a little more insight into Charlie, Kit's brother, in this book. The author plays up on Ruthie's love of fairy tales with the plot of this book, trying to give Ruthie a heroic quest of her own in this story. 

However, I was a bit disappointed in the plot of this book! It seemed a bit improbably that Ruthie and Charlie would be the ones to set out to Aunt Millie's house. It didn't make sense to me that Kit wouldn't go or that Ruthie would be one of the ones to go at all. I also didn't feel like we got to know much more about Ruthie through this plot, other than her being a good friend and being hurt by the Kitteredges idea that she is only interested in fairy tales. I guess I wish the plot had been more about her and not a side quest. I guess they felt like it would have been better suited to one of the short stories because there really wasn't much to the plot, but I understand that they wanted a full-length book for Ruthie. 

Also, I remain so frustrated that these books give no indication of the order in which they should be read! This is labeled as book 7 in the Kit books. But in reality, the story takes place sometime between the plots of books 3 and 4. I would have read the book at that point in the series had I known. 

Stars: 3

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