Meet Molly: An American Girl

Valerie Tripp

Pleasant Company, 1986 - Juvenile Fiction - 58 pages

Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance of getting along and pulling together -- just as her country has to do to win the war!

World War Two turns Molly's family upside down. While her father is away, war threatens to break out on the McIntires' home front, too.

About the author

Valerie Tripp graduated with honors from the first coeducational class at Yale University in 1973. She received a Masters of Education from Harvard University in 1981. From 1974 to 1980, she was a writer for the Addison-Wesley Reading Program. She then became a freelance writer for The Hampton-Brown Company and ELHI Publishers Services creating educational materials for major publishers. In 1983, Tripp and Pleasant Rowland decided to write a series of books about girls growing up all over the country during some of the most historical events of the past. Rowland envisioned the books as one of the cornerstones of a new company she had just founded called the Pleasant Co. Tripp's first assignment for Pleasant Co. was writing four of the six books about Samantha, a girl in turn-of-the-century America. Tripp then wrote about Felicity, Molly, and Josephina for the American Girls series. Her other works include the Hopscotch Hill School series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Meet Molly: An American Girl; Volume 1 of American Girl: Molly; American Girls Collection: Molly 1944; Volume 37 of American Girls Series; American girls collection
• Author: Valerie Tripp
• Illustrated by: Nick Backes, Keith Skeen, Renee Graef
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Pleasant Company, 1986
• ISBN: 0808579894, 9780808579892
• Length: 58 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / General