dolls

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dolls

Miss Hickory

1974
Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.

The chalk doll

1989
Rosy's mother remembers the pleasures of her childhood in Jamaica and the very special dolls she used to play with.

The museum of Mary Child

2009
Heloise lives with her undemonstrative godmother in the caretaker's cottage next to a sinister-looking museum that she is not allowed to enter, but her life changes when she discovers a longtime-desired doll beneath the floorboards of her bedroom.

Emma in charge

2005
Emma pretends that she and her dolls spend a day at school.

Ellis Island days

2002
Hitty, a wooden doll that travels from girl to girl, becomes the valued possession of an Italian girl who emigrates with her family to New York City in 1908.

Voting rights days

2002
After coming to live with nine-year-old Emily and her family in Washington, D.C., in 1916, Hitty, a well-traveled wooden doll, witnesses the efforts of Emily's aunt and other suffragettes to win the right for women to vote.

Barbie: School days

2004
Barbie helps Stacie and Kelly get ready for school and then teaches a class herself.

Rachel Field's 1930 Newbery Award-winning story Hitty, her first hundred years

1999
A doll named Hitty recounts her adventures as she moves through a continually changing string of owners.

The story of Holly & Ivy

1985
Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.

Hooray for reading!

2002
Marcella is learning how to read and her dolls want to learn too.

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