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OK. Since I‘ve been sharing ALL of the interesting videos/articles I‘ve been super into recently, here‘s one final entry:

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An acquaintance of ours makes jewelry, clothing, tiny cottages, & more. Her Dad died of Covid during the *very* early days of the pandemic (before we really knew what was going on). She bought an American Girl doll to process her grief & some childhood trauma & made clothes for her. It‘s real Art.

I put up my American Girl tree again! My two favorites are Molly and Samantha.😄 I guess I‘m showing my age because there were only four American Girls when I started reading the books. (Felicity, Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly; Addie got added just as I was aging out of the books). #xmastreecontest #wintergames #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

I indulged myself - American Girls reissued the first six dolls for their 35th anniversary, and I got my Samantha! When I was about 8 I saved all my money for almost a year to buy the doll. I bought her at a flea market thing, and moments later someone tried to take the bag right out of my hand. They failed, but it was scary. I got her home - and have no memory of anything after that. The doll disappeared. Around that time we moved (cont)

I'm going to give this prompt a little spin and only choose books and book series that I read as a child or early teen. All of these books will have impacted me in one way or another.

#7Days7Books Day 3

Seven books that left a deep impression on me and/or changed me.

This is my nostalgia bookcase! From top to bottom, the collections are:
-American Girl & Girls of Many Lands
-Dear America & Royal Diaries
-Nancy Drew & a few Hardy Boys
-Animorphs
-The Baby-Sitters Club & California Diaries

The toys are:
-my AG Samantha doll
-Her desk (thrift store)
-AG Isabelle mini doll (fast food meal)
-Animorphs Andalite transformer (flea market)

This bookcase settles me. #bookshelfie #childrensbooks #nostalgia

I find it interesting that one of the original American Girls stories has this tidbit about an expensive doll.

Also, these books put me over Mount Blanc for #MountTBR unofficial challenge.

I read these five beauties today. I believe they‘re first editions, the original print run from my childhood. No numbers on the spines. I have two copies of the Christmas story but no copy of Changes for Samantha, and not sure if I ever did. I‘ve been looking for one that matches my set for years.
#11-15 for #MiddleGradeMarch @megnews @sblbooks
Plugging along for #24B4Extend @Andrew65

#NoFemmeber I couldn‘t pass the chance to highlight a #ThrowbackPhoto #YourBestAmericanGirl with her best American Girl Doll ❤️🙌🏻😉 Samantha was Niki‘s first AGD, others followed 😜 #InduldgedGranddaughter

Day 7: I know I‘m a day behind. So it‘s pretty well known about me that I always get caught when I try to break the rules. It‘s a curse. Anyway, that means I usually followed the rules in school because I didn‘t like getting in trouble. However, these books came out in 1986 when I was around 9 and I used to take them to Rosh Hashanah services and read them during the service. With my mom‘s permission of course. #itkeptmequiet
#requiredreadingredo

I loved American girl I grew up to these books

When I was little, Samantha and Kirsten and Molly and Addy (I had a lot of favorites, ok? I was little) were my favorite American Girls, and I dreamed about the day I could take one home. I never did, but now that I'm a grownup, whenever the catalog arrives at my house (why now? Especially now that they're discontinued? *shakes fist*), I get a pang of longing, and I'm eight years old all over again.

It's difficult to pick my #alltimefavebooks, but I have to give some love to the American Girl series. I used to obsess over these books and read each series (Addy, Felicity, Kirsten, Molly, and Samantha) over and over. They fostered my love of reading and history. And thank goodness for Google image searches - my copies are stored away and I can't get a picture of them. #augustphotochallenge