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Welcome to

American Girls Collection

These historical Braille novels will be sure to capture the interest of blind readers as they follow the adventures and experiences of girls their age.

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36 books on this shelf.

Meet Felicity (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #1

by Valerie Tripp, 55 pages . Meet Felicity Merriman, a spunky, spritely nine-year-old girl who lives in Wiliamsburg, Virginia, in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War. She grows impatient doing "sitting down kinds of things", ...

Item Number: 4214

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Felicity Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #2

by Valerie Tripp, 55 pages . Nine-year-old Felicity is sent to Miss Manderly's house to learn to be a polite gentlewoman. She practices elegant penmanship, fancy stitchery, formal dancing, and the proper way to serve tea. Two sis...

Item Number: 4215

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Felicity's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #3

by Valerie Tripp, 53 pages . Felicity is invited to a dancing lesson at the elegant Governor's Palace, the most wonderful honor she can imagine. Mother promises to make a beautiful new gown for her, just like the one shown on the...

Item Number: 4216

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Happy Birthday, Felicity! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #4

by Valerie Tripp, 51 pages . Springtime means that Felicity's birthday is coming. This year, springtime also brings a visit from Grandfather, who has a precious gift for Felicity - a guitar that belonged to her grandmother. Felic...

Item Number: 4217

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Felicity Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #5

by Valerie Tripp, 51 pages . Summer on Grandfather's plantation next to the York River is heaven for Felicity. She can be out of doors all day long - riding horses with Grandfather, playing with Nan and William, and exploring the...

Item Number: 4218

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Changes for Felicity (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #6

by Valerie Tripp, 53 pages . For Felicity Merriman, 1776 starts off with good news. Grandfather tells her that her beloved horse Penny is going to have a foal. Felicity has one worry - Jiggy Nye. He has been cruel to Penny in the...

Item Number: 4219

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Meet Josefina (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #1

by Valerie Tripp, 67 pages . Josefina Montoya is growing up on her family's ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1824. Ever since Mama died a year before, Josefina and her three sisters have been struggling to carry on without her...

Item Number: 4220

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Josefina Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #2

by Valerie Tripp, 57 pages . When Tia Dolores returns to the Montoyas' ranch, Josefina is delighted. But soon after she arrives, a flash flood kills hundreds of the family's sheep. Tia Dolores suggests that the Montoyas could rec...

Item Number: 4221

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Josefina's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #3

by Valerie Tripp, 59 pages . Josefina hopes her family will have a happy Christmas, even though she knows they will miss Mama. When they discover that the treasured Christmas altar cloth Mama embroidered has been badly damaged, s...

Item Number: 4222

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Happy Birthday, Josefina! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #4

by Valerie Tripp, 71 pages . Josefina is pleased and proud when her godmother, Tia Magdalena, asks for her help with springtime chores. Tia Magdalena is a respected healer in the village, and Josefina hopes very much to become a ...

Item Number: 4223

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Josefina Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #5

by Valerie Tripp, 57 pages . Josefina's family is in Santa Fe to make a trade that will affect the future of their ranch. An American wagon train will arrive any day, and Josefina can't wait to get her first look at American trad...

Item Number: 4224

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Changes for Josefina (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Josefina #6

by Valerie Tripp, 71 pages . To celebrate the end of the Christmas season, the Montoyas hold a party for all their friends and neighbors. Josefina and her sisters handle the preparations beautifully, and the party is a great succ...

Item Number: 4225

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Meet Kirsten (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #1

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 43 pages . In the summer of 1854, after a long and dangerous journey on a small ship, Kirsten Larson and her family arrive in America. Everything in the new land is different from the small village Kirsten left ...

Item Number: 4226

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Kirsten Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #2

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 51 pages . Kirsten has a hard time in her new American school because she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston ...

Item Number: 4227

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Kirsten's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #3

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 49 pages . The Larson family celebrates their first Christmas in America, and Kirsten wants to keep some of their old Swedish traditions alive in the new country. She secretly plans a Saint Lucia celebration for...

Item Number: 4228

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Happy Birthday, Kirsten! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #4

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 55 pages . Exciting new things come to the Larsons' farm in Minnesota in the springtime - including a big new barn and a tiny new baby. But changes bring new worries and more work for Kirsten, too. First she is ...

Item Number: 4229

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Kirsten Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #5

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 49 pages . At last it's summer! Even Kirsten's chores, like going to the stream to catch fish for dinner, seem like play in the fine Minnesota weather. One day while she's fishing, Kirsten leaves the stream to e...

Item Number: 4230

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Changes for Kirsten (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Kirsten #6

by Janet Beeler Shaw, 51 pages . The Minnesota winter is bitter cold. It seems very long to Kirsten and her family, who are crowded in their tiny log cabin. Kirsten looks forward to the days she's allowed outside to help her brother ...

Item Number: 4231

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Meet Addy (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #1

by Connie Rose Porter, 51 pages . One night during the summer of 1864, Addy Walker overhears her parents talk about an exciting yet terrifying idea - escaping slavery. But before Addy's family can make the escape, the worst happens to...

Item Number: 4232

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Addy Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #2

by Connie Rose Porter, 53 pages . Addy Walker and her mother arrive in Philadelphia to begin life as free people. Everything is new to them in the big city. Addy is most happy about two changes. She has a friend for the first time, Sa...

Item Number: 4233

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Addy's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #3

by Connie Rose Porter, 55 pages . Addy and her mother know that Christmas will be hard without Poppa, Sam, and Esther. When Addy spots a beautiful red scarf in a secondhand shop, she determines to get it for Momma to brighten her holi...

Item Number: 4234

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Happy Birthday, Addy! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #4

by Connie Rose Porter, 47 pages . It's springtime in Philadelphia, and Addy and her parents have moved from the garret into a boarding house. There Addy finds a wise and inspiring friend, M'dear. Like many people who grew up enslaved,...

Item Number: 4235

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Addy Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #5

by Connie Rose Porter, 51 pages . It's summer in Philadelphia. The Civil War has ended, and families like Addy's that have been separated are searching for their loved ones. The church is putting on a fund-raising fair to help people ...

Item Number: 4236

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Changes for Addy (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Addy #6

by Connie Rose Porter, 47 pages . As 1865 ends, Addy still longs to have her whole family together. She's begun to give up hope when the Walker family finally gets word that baby Esther, Auntie Lula, and Uncle Solomon have started out...

Item Number: 4237

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Meet Samantha (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #1

by Susan S. Adler, 43 pages . Samantha Parkington is an orphan who lives with her rich grandmother in 1904. There are many servants in Grandmary's household, but there is no one for Samantha to play with. That's why she's so excit...

Item Number: 4238

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Samantha Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #2

by Susan S. Adler, 47 pages . Samantha goes to Miss Crampton's Academy, a private school for proper young ladies, where everyone is buzzing about the upcoming speaking contest. Samantha is working hard to win the gold medal. But s...

Item Number: 4239

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Samantha's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #3

by Maxine Rose Schur, 53 pages . Samantha has high hopes for the best Christmas ever. But things start to go wrong when her favorite Uncle Gard announces he is bringing the beautiful Cornelia home for the holidays. The household goes...

Item Number: 4240

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Happy Birthday, Samantha! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #4

by Valerie Tripp, 49 pages . Samantha's tenth birthday party is nearly ruined when Eddie Ryland plays a mean trick. Then Agnes and Agatha, Cornelia's ten-year-old twin sisters, save the day with an invitation to visit New York Ci...

Item Number: 4241

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Samantha Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #5

by Valerie Tripp, 49 pages . This summer everyone is at Piney Point, Grandmary's home in the mountains. Admiral Archibald Beemis has come all the way from England, as he does every summer. And Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia have br...

Item Number: 4242

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Changes for Samantha (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Samantha #6

by Valerie Tripp, 53 pages . Times change for Samantha when she moves to New York City to live with Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too. But Nellie's changes aren'...

Item Number: 4243

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Meet Molly (An American Girl)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #1

by Valerie Tripp, 45 pages . It's 1944 and the world is at war. For Molly McIntire, life seems full of change. Her father is far away caring for wounded soldiers. Her mother is busy working for the Red Cross. Mrs. Gilford, the st...

Item Number: 4244

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Molly Learns a Lesson (A School Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #2

by Valerie Tripp, 53 pages . When the teacher announces the Lend-a-Hand Contest to help the war effort, Molly is determined that the third grade girls will plan the winning project. Instead, they choose an idea that Molly knows w...

Item Number: 4245

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Molly's Surprise (A Christmas Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #3

by Valerie Tripp, 51 pages . The McIntire family faces a disappointing Christmas. Dad is off at war in England, Molly's grandparents can't come for the holidays, and it looks like there won't be many exciting presents. Worst of a...

Item Number: 4246

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Happy Birthday, Molly! (A Springtime Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #4

by Valerie Tripp, 51 pages . An English girl is coming to stay at the McIntires', and just in time for Molly's birthday! Molly and her friends are very excited, until Emily Bennett turns out to be quite different from the glamoro...

Item Number: 4247

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Molly Saves the Day (A Summer Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #5

by Valerie Tripp, 53 pages . Everyone loves Camp Gowonagin, but Molly loves it most of all. She spends two wonderful weeks there singing, hiking, canoeing, and making arts and crafts projects with her friends Linda and Susan. Whe...

Item Number: 4248

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Changes for Molly (A Winter Story)

Series: American Girls Collection Series: Molly #6

by Valerie Tripp, 51 pages . Dad is coming home! Molly can hardly wait to see him. She's especially excited because he'll arrive in time to see her dance the part of Miss Victory in the big Red Cross show. Molly isn't worried abo...

Item Number: 4249

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