Tripp, Valerie

A scary adventure for Samantha and her friend Nellie, set in New York City.

Moly feels that everything in her life has changed when her father goes off to England to help wounded soldiers and her beloved aunt joins the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Includes a section on women pilots in the armed services, and a project related to the story.

Tires of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.

On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness.

In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

In 1932 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression, both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparatations for the Thanksgiving pageant.

Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her fater is returning home from the war.

Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War.