The go-to guide for girl bakers, who want to share the fun homemade cookies-featuring more than sixty recipes, plus decorating tips and more! American Girl Cookies is chock full of recipes for one of America's favorite sweet treats, from classic favorites to contemporary creations. Chewy, crunchy, gooey, or crumbly, choose from a delectable collection of drop cookies, sandwich cookies, cut-out cookies, brownies, and bars-like cinnamon-y snickerdoodles,...

Make the holiday season extra cozy with baked treats from Thanksgiving pies to Christmas cookies and more in this cookbook for creative young chefs! American Girl Holiday Baking features more than fifty delicious holiday recipes. From winter-themed cupcakes to chocolate candies and nut brittles, there's a special treat to celebrate every occasion during the winter season. Readers will find fantastic ideas for home-baked gifts that are perfect for...

There's cupcake fun for everyone in this delightful cookbook with more than fifty easy-to-follow recipes from the classic to the fantastic! Celebrate the joy of girlhood with delicious treats that are just as fun to make as they are to eat. Try carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, devil's food with easy chocolate ganache, or cupcakes with flavors like rocky road, cookies-n-cream, chocolate banana cream pie, salted caramel, blackberry...

The doll you love comes to your television set--Molly: An American Girl. 1944--Jefferson, Illinois. The world is at war, and young Molly McIntire does not like the changes the war has brought--such as rationing rubber, eating turnips for dinner or the fact that her mother must take a job. And more than anything else, Molly misses not seeing her dad for Christmas when, as a doctor, he must go away to care for wounded soldiers. But Molly makes a new...

A twelve-year-old aspiring performer follows her dream in a novel that culminates at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Orphelia Bruce lives in rural Missouri, the corner where Illinois, Iowa, and her home state come together. She can sing and play the piano better than anyone in Lewis County. So when Orphelia's mother forbids her from taking part in a traveling minstrel show looking for new talent and starring her idol, Madame Meritta, she runs away...

As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movement Eleven-year-old Susan O'Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters. But ever since their father died, her mother depends on her. To make ends meet, she's just taken a boarder, an Englishwoman named Beatrice Rutherford, into their Chelsea tenement apartment. Susan and Bea become fast friends, but when Susan finds a folded piece of...

In 1724, Rachel Howell leaves New York for South Carolina . . . and plunges into a dangerous world of pirates and hidden treasure that threatens her family's future When New York–born and –raised Rachel Howell sails for South Carolina to be reunited with her father, the last thing she expects is to be attacked by pirates! She's lucky to escape with her life, but the attackers take a pearl necklace belonging to her dead mother. Things go from bad...

An eleven-year-old immigrant must clear her name when things start disappearing from a Boston settlement house Innocenza Moretti's parents died in a fire when she was two. Ever since, she's lived with her grandmother and seven lodgers in the flat downstairs from her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a crowded tenement in Boston's North End. Innie's world changes when she and her cousin Teresa become members of a settlement house where immigrant girls can...

At the outbreak of World War II, a twelve-year-old girl comes up with an idea to help the war effort America has just entered World War II, and everyone in Charlotte Campbell's family is doing his or her part, either abroad or in the Pennsylvania factory town where the Campbells live. Charlotte's brother Jim has enlisted in the navy, and her mother works in Braddock's local war plant. Her dad guides tugboats filled with supplies up the Monongahela...

Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.