Samantha Parkington from 1904 is an orphan who is living with her grandmother, Grandmary after her parents died in a boating accident when she was five years old. Grandmary spends time teaching Samantha how to be a proper “young lady”. Samantha meets Nellie O’ Malley, a young Irish immigrant who is working at Samantha’s neighbor’s […]
Marie-Grace & Cécile a Page in History
Most kids would love to get a sick day. I mean, you get to stay home from school and spend the whole day in your pajamas, watching TV on the couch. What could be better than that? Well, it’s different when it’s just a cold or a flu. But the Coronavirus is serious, serious enough […]
American Girls and Sports
There are a lot of athletic American Girl dolls that exist in our store. Girls like Julie, Mia, Chrissa and McKenna all participate in a sport of their choice: basketball, ice skating, swimming and gymnastics respectively. What these girls have in common is that they gain something out of playing a sport. They gain confidence, […]
New Year, New Beginnings
1974 has been a rough year for American Girl, Julie Albright. Her parents got divorced, and she and her older sister Tracy now live with their mother 75 percent of the time. And since her mother decided to move to a small apartment in San Francisco, Julie has to move out of her childhood house, […]
Addy Walker – Life in 1864
Addy Walker was born and raised on a cotton plantation with her parents, her older brother, Sam, and her baby sister, Esther. But they do not live there as the owners of the home. No…the master of that home owns them. Addy and her family are slaves. Slaves were people who were forced into a […]