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Meet Molly: An American Girl
Children's fiction
Meet Molly: An American Girl
Book 1 of the American Girls: Molly series
58 pages · First published 1986
Nine-year-old Molly McIntire lives with her family in Illinois in 1944 while her father serves overseas as an Army doctor during World War II. Rationing, school activities, household changes, and concern for loved ones abroad bring the war into Molly’s everyday life even though the fighting is far away. Her energetic personality sometimes clashes with the patience and cooperation wartime circumstances require. Valerie Tripp opens Molly’s American Girl series with child-centered historical fiction about the American home front, family separation, friendship, and learning how ordinary children contributed to a national war effort.
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