Kit's Tree House (American Girls Short Stories)

By Renée Graef, Valerie Tripp, Susan McAliley

Ten-year-old Kit dreams of having a special tree house someday, but she is disappointed with the one her father and her friend build for her. Includes note on housing during the Depression and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584856998
• ISBN13: 9781584856993
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great American Girl short story

History, a great story and an authentic historical craft! Not only that, but just the right size for girl-sized hands. A+++++++ Cannot be beat!

A nice short story featuring Kit Kittredge.

Ten-year-old Kit Kittredge, whos is growing up during the Great Depression, dreams of a tree house of her own. She and her friends, Sterling and Ruthie, have made plans for many different kinds of tree houses, hoping to someday have one of them in Kit's yard. When Kit must help out her mom by babysitting a neighbor's bratty children, her dad and Sterling decide to surprise her by building a tree house while she is away watching the children. But when they show Kit the tree house, it is nothing like any of the ones she dreamed about. How can Kit tell them the truth and disappoint them? Can she ever learn to love her new tree house? This is a good short story that will be enjoyed by all fans of the American Girls Collection and of Kit Kittredge. It has good historical information about what life was life for children during the Great Depression, and has a good message for young readers. I'd recommend this book to the target audience who are sure to love it.

Another great Kit book

This is another in the American Girls Short Stories series about Kit Kittredge, a ten-year-old girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1934, during the Great Depression. Kit has been dreaming of a tree house, a little place where she can go off and be alone in. But when her father and Stirling, the son of a boarder, build her a tree house she is disappointed that it looks nothing like her dreams. Should she tell the truth and crush her father, or should she lie and tell him that she likes it? Perhaps such stark choices do not cover all of her options...As with the other Kit books, this is a great story. It paints a true-to-life portrait of the hard times faced by so many Americans at that time, but it does so in an upbeat way. My daughter and I loved the story of this book, while I loved its lesson. As always, Walter Rane's illustrations are great, which adds a lot to the feeling of the story. Plus the final chapter, which is on housing in 1934 and making a jewelry tree (nice!), is wonderful.My daughter and I both highly recommend this book to you!