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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781562470043
ISBN number: 1562470043
Label: American Girl Publishing Inc
Manufacturer: American Girl Publishing Inc
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 68
Printing Date: 1991-09
Publishing house: American Girl Publishing Inc
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 12937
Studio: American Girl Publishing Inc
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Meet Felicity Merriman, a spunky, spritely nine-year-old girl who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War. Felicity is excited to hear abut a new horse in town. But the horse is owned by Jiggy Nye, the cruel tanner.
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Simply adorable. The American Girl series is probably one of the best things for young girls (and screw the money thing!). Felicity not only introduces a worthy role model, but a researched look at Colonial America and the Revoluationary War.
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Set in Colonial Williamsburg in 1774 this very first book in the FELICITY series introduces readers to the Merriman family. As the eldest of three young children Felicity causes her mother great concern; she is too lively to sit still for long, and too impatient to make neat stitches and delicate letters. However, she proves stubbornly creative when it comes to what She wants to do. Preferring the physical freedom of wearing boy's britches this spunky girl is passionate about horses. Her kindly father--a mercantile owner--has no intention of increasing his modest stable.
Felicity's curiosity is sparked when she learns that Mr. Nye, the mean tannery owner, has acquired a new, spirited horse. With a reputation of cruelty to his own animals Nye presents a formidable opponent for a soft-hearted girl. Still Felicity is determined to see the new beauty for herself, whom she privately names Penny because of her color. So how can this plucky girl rescue the young horse from certain death, while protecting herself from being hanged as a horse thief? Will the
new alliance with Ben, her father's apprentice, prove fruitful? All the books in the American Girls series read easily, accompanied by an interesting historical appendix following the story. An excellent elementary school teaching aid.
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I received this book when I bought my Felicity doll from American Girl.
In this book you meet Felicity Merriman who is a bright, funny girl living in the year 1774.
Felicity is quite bored with her routine; sewing, cooking, learning how to be a proper young lady, etc.
One day she sees a horse playing out in the pasture. She quickly becomes friends with it, and names it Penny. Later she finds out that the horse belongs to a cruel man named Jiggy Nye who has spent time in jail for animal cruelty.
Felicity knows the horse isn't hers, but that doesn't stop her from riding it one day. Jiggy Nye sees her, and tells her that anyone who can ride her may have her. Felicity then hatches a plan to steal the horse, which then backfires.
As this is a childrens book, everything does turn out ok in the end.
10 stars
~~Kat
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The American Girls are too boring!!! However, the Felicity book series are one of the best. I can't make it through reading a Kaya book, because they are so boring. Anyway, this book is about Felicity wanting the horse that she named Penny. But will Jiggy Nye, the mean guy, let her have the horse?
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This is the very first in the American Girls Short Stories series about Felicity Merriman, a nine-year-old girl living in the America of 1774. In this book, Felicity is bored with her constrained "girl's" world, where her time is spent wearing cumbersome dresses and making small, uniform stitches. Excitement enters, when she meets the knacker's new horse. The knacker, Jiggy Nye, is a cruel man who mistreats the horse. Here Felicity learns that sometime you must work for what you love, and sometimes you must give it up.
The final chapter is a fascinating and highly informative look into life in 1774. This book lives up to the excellence that characterizes most American Girls books. My daughter and I greatly enjoyed it, and we recommend it to you.
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