The writer, Valerie Tripp, had written this for the American Girl company. This organization would not want a poor American Girl. So for Kit’s family to be just making it by with the things they still have seems unrealistic. Many people lost everything they had. Therefore, for this one girl and her family to be okay though the depression, for the most part, does not match the book’s context. Other than that minor detail, this book is very accurate. From the men, women, and children, this short book went into detail making sure every fact was historically correct. This book really helped me put faces to people that did struggle during this time. To hear about what a young girl and her family had to go through allows me to see how common families did everything they could to stay afloat during the Great
The writer, Valerie Tripp, had written this for the American Girl company. This organization would not want a poor American Girl. So for Kit’s family to be just making it by with the things they still have seems unrealistic. Many people lost everything they had. Therefore, for this one girl and her family to be okay though the depression, for the most part, does not match the book’s context. Other than that minor detail, this book is very accurate. From the men, women, and children, this short book went into detail making sure every fact was historically correct. This book really helped me put faces to people that did struggle during this time. To hear about what a young girl and her family had to go through allows me to see how common families did everything they could to stay afloat during the Great