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Meet Felicity: An American Girl
Children's fiction
Meet Felicity: An American Girl
Book 1 of the American Girl: Felicity series
69 pages · First published 1991
Nine-year-old Felicity Merriman lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774, where arguments about independence from Britain are beginning to affect everyday life. Her attention is captured by Penny, a beautiful horse being mistreated by the cruel tanner Jiggy Nye, and Felicity is determined to help even when adults tell her the animal is none of her business. The story introduces Felicity’s family, friends, and spirited resistance to rules she considers unjust. Valerie Tripp opens Felicity’s American Girl series with colonial history, horses, moral courage, and a heroine growing up just as her country begins questioning authority.
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Animal abuse, including a horse beaten by its owner; animal endangerment; child disobedience/secrecy; pre-Revolutionary political tensions.
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