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//**Meet Kit**// //**An American Girl**//

//**I read this book by Valerie Tripp about a 9 year old girl named Kit Kittredge who has a nose for news. Since most of the news in the early 1930s is about the hard times of the Depression, Kit writes her own newspaper stories. While dad is at work Kit is at home writing him an article on the days events. One of her articles is all about Mrs. Howard and her son moving in to her house. She is all excited about Stirling but that leads to disappointment. She also writes an article about "Its Not Fair" which she wrote about being blamed for something that she didn't do but before she can show this article to her father she was told by her older brother that dad would not be in the mood because he had to shut the doors at his dealership due to no customers. Then Kit overheard her mom and dad discussing how they needed to rent out the rooms in there house to make there own mortgage payment. Kit loses her room and gets totally discouraged.**// //**After reading this book I got a good look through a childs eye how the Depression effected her life as well as her entire families. People were helping each other out through this difficult time. Renting out there spare rooms, harvesting crops and raising animals for food. I also learned that in a family children would take turns eating. Some children went to school and the teachers would ask were there lunch was and the child's response was "it isn't my day to eat." I got a lot of information out of this book about the Depression.**//