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Date: 20071216
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Books for girls recommended by American Girl author Valerie Tripp:

"Understood Betsy" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. A city orphan finds herself on a Vermont farm.

"The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Tales of girls using imagination to survive hard times.

The "Little House" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. A frontier epic through a girl's eyes.

"Heidi" by Johanna Spyri. A Swiss orphan charms her grumpy grandpa.

"The Sherwood Ring" by Elizabeth Marie Pope. A young girl becomes entangled with ancient spirits in a mysterious estate.

"Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid ...

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