Nellie and her sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are orphaned and later adopted by Samantha's relatives, Gardner and Cornelia Edwards. Nellie was marketed with a small collection of clothing and a book written by Valerie Tripp, Nellie's Promise, which chronicles the character's growth and adjustment to her recent adoption. As Nellie was part of Samantha's collection, she was archived at the same time as Samantha. In with the return of Samantha, the release of BeForever, and American Girl's decision to move away from the Best Friends line it is unlikely for Nellie to be re-released.
Marisol Luna is a nine year old girl who aspires to be a Dancer. Introduced on January 1, , Marisol had an extensive collection of dance outfits and accessories. Marisol has medium skin, brown eyes, and medium brown hair. Her face mold is the Josefina Montoya mold. The second being Luciana. Originally a minor character temporarily residing with the McIntires in the book Happy Birthday, Molly!
Emily's debut coincided with the premiere of the Molly made-for-TV movie. Since Emily is a minor character and not Molly's best friend, she was marketed instead as "Molly's English friend". As Emily is a part of Molly's collection, she was archived along with Molly. Mia was previewed on the November 21, episode of Oprah.
The doll was subsequently released on January 1, with an extensive collection and two books: Mia and Bravo Mia, both written by Laurence Yep. Mia's stories chronicle her passion for competitive figure skating, which is at odds with her hockey-playing family. Mia is featured in a computer game Mia Goes For Great! Kit's core series of books was written by Valerie Tripp and illustrated by Walter Rane. Many new items were added to Kit's collection as product tie-ins to the movie.
Chrissa Marie Maxwell and her collection were released on January 1, An accompanying direct-to-DVD film entitled Chrissa Stands Strong based on her story premiered January 5 and became available for purchase the next day.
Chrissa's books and DVD focus on peer bullying issues. Chrissa is portrayed by Actress Sammi Hanratty. Both books are written by Mary Casanova. In a break with tradition for this product line, Chrissa's collection included two additional "best friend" dolls: Gwen Thompson and Sonali Matthews, neither of which had a separate collection.
In the books, Gwen Thompson is disappointed in Chrissa when she believes Chrissa has revealed one of her secrets to school bullies.
At first, Sonali is one of the bullies, but then learns to stand up for others. The character of Sonali debuted a new face mold to represent her Indian heritage. Lanie was released in January along with her collection. Lanie is a ten-year-old girl living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, depicted as having an affinity for science and biology and considers herself a scientist.
Kanani is the ninth Girl of the Year character; she and her collection were released in Kanani is the second multiracial character, following Jess McConnell. Her father is of Japanese and Hawaiian descent, and her mother is French and German.
Hailing from Kaua'i, she helps her family run a shave ice shop and is passionate about helping people by sharing the aloha spirit and protecting Hawaiian wildlife.
The film is also the second in the series to feature a Girl of the Year character. Gilford was going to make a vanilla cake without eggs or butter or milk. Susan jokes that she would have Emily's slice if she didn't want it, and the girls suddenly feel hungry for cake.
They all see Mrs. Gilford to see if she had any cake, but they ended up getting carrot sticks, which they munched on as they went down to their bomb shelter. Emily and Mrs. McIntire returned just as the family was about to have dinner. McIntire comments that spring was here and asks with a smile if somebody had a birthday in the spring. Molly says that her birthday was only a week away, and Mrs.
McIntire asks if she decided what kind of party to have. Molly starts to say that she hadn't decided yet when a siren screeched. Ricky cheers that it was a blackout, and Emily shrank back into her seat. McIntire sighs that it was a surprise blackout and she gives her family various orders. She tells Molly and Emily to take Brad down to the basement as she, Jill, and Ricky would prepare the house. Molly was halfway to the stairs with Brad when she realized Emily wasn't following them.
Molly tells Emily to hurry up, but Emily didn't move. Molly speaks louder, saying they had to go downstairs for a blackout. Brad assures Emily that it was only a pretend blackout, and there weren't actual bombs coming. Molly takes a closer look at Emily, thinking if Brad was right about Emily being scared.
Emily's face was completely white, so Molly softened her voice as she promised Emily that it was only a practice. Emily didn't say anything, but she go up and went downstairs with the two. When the rest of the family went to the basement, Mrs. McIntire explains that they had these blackout drills once in a while so they'd be prepared for a bombing, even though there wasn't a big chance of getting bombed.
Emily was sitting in the darkest corner of the room, wrapped up in a blanket despite it not being cold. Molly sat next to Emily, unable to see her face. Molly starts to say how sometimes they were warned about the drills early when she notices Emily was shivering. Molly asks if she was okay and realizes Emily was crying. She asks if she was scared and Emily shakes her had no. She suddenly says that she hated this, and Molly is silent as Emily goes on talking. Emily explained what a blackout in England was like how she hated the one split second of silence before the explosion She shudders as she says it was almost worse coming out again just to see the house she'd walk by everyday would suddenly be gone.
Emily pulled the blanket closer as she said the bombings in England wasn't exciting at all, nor was it a game. It was a terrible thing where people got hurt and killed.
She says that the Americans just didn't understand. Molly waited, making sure Emily finished talking. She admits that they really didn't know what a bombing was like as they were safe here, and now Emily was safe as well. Emily sighs that her mum and dad were still in London. Molly moved closer to Emily, knowing how it felt to be worried about someone far away and in danger. Molly shares that her Dad was in England too, and she missed him very much.
Emily looked sideways at Molly as she admitted she felt like a coward for leaving England. Molly says that Emily was as brave as a soldier for going through the bombings. Molly considered her the bravest person she knew after her Dad. Emily says sadly that if she were really brave, she would have asked her parents to let her stay.
Trying to make Emily feel better, Molly says that even the princesses of England had to leave London, going from their palace to the Windsor Castle. Molly recalled reading how they slept in the dungeons every night to be safe from the bombs. Emily let the blanket fall away form her head as she asked if Molly liked Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose too. Molly says she loved to see them in newsreels and magazines, and she even had paper dolls of them. Emily's face looked bright as she said she had a scrapbook full of their pictures that she brought with her.
Molly asks eagerly to see it and Emily says yes. The all-clear signal suddenly blew, and the blackout was over. Molly and Emily stand up as they agree to look at the scrapbook now. Molly smiles at Emily, and Emily actually smiled back.
Molly and Emily looked at the scrapbook together, Emily explaining each picture. While Emily still sat up straight, she wasn't stiff and silent anymore. Emily shows a picture of the princesses when they were younger, mentioning how they used to dress up the same.
Molly jumps up and says they could dress up the same as well. Emily didn't say anything, but Molly understood that her silence didn't mean she didn't care, she just didn't say everything she was thinking. Molly checks her closet as she mentions she had the same blue skirt and sweater as Emily had, and Emily offers to loan her blue knee socks.
The girls put on their matching outfits. As Emily buttoned her sweater all the way to the top, Molly asks why she did that. Emily explains that she kept on forgetting how warm Molly's house was, as British homes used to be very cold.
Molly asks if Windsor Castle was cold as well and Emily nods. Emily tells Molly how the princesses made sacrifices for the war like only having a few inches of bath water and eating dreadful things like parsnips and turnips. Molly says they had to eat turnips here as well and Emily says Molly was like the princesses too. They point out that the first letters of their names matched the first letter of the princesses's names, and the two smiled.
Molly admits to Emily that before she arrived, she expected her to look like one of the princesses. Emily said she expected Molly to look like Shirley Temple, and Molly says her hair was more like brown sticks than blonde ringlets.
Molly sighs that her hair didn't make her look like a movie star or a princess, but if she really wanted to be a princess, she'd have a dog like the British Princesses. Molly suggests that they could have pretend dogs, and the two leave the room with their imaginary dogs.
They bumped into Ricky in the hallway, who made fun of their matching outfits. Molly tells Emily to ignore him, but she instead takes a closer look at the poster he was putting up. It was a homemade poster showing fighter planes from different countries. Emily tells Ricky he mistook an American plan for an enemy plane as she pointed at the mistake. Ricky asks how she knew about fighter planes and Emily explains she saw hundreds of them fly over England.
Impressed that Emily even saw a fighter plane, Ricky started to take down his poster and asks if she noticed any other errors. Emily offers to check the poster later, and the two girls go outside.
They used jump ropes as leashes for their pretend dogs and walked around the street. Molly asks Emily if she liked dogs and Emily's eyes shined as she said she loved them. Molly agrees, saying how she wished she had a dog before she was a princess. She comments that a dog could really be one's friend and asks Emily what she thought.
Emily didn't say anything, and she quickly walked a few steps ahead of Molly. The next few days, everyone got used to Molly and Emily dressing up the same and walking their imaginary dogs. The girls would share their roller skates, though they could only wear one skate each. Molly apologizes, saying how they stopped making skates for the war, and Emily says she didn't mind.
She reminds Molly that they were princesses, and they never complained about their sacrifices they had to make. The girls skated up the driveway, where Mrs. McIntire was tending the flower garden. She greets the two as she reminds Molly that her birthday was only a week away, and she still didn't have a party idea.
Molly explains that she couldn't decide. She asks Emily how they celebrated birthdays in England, and Emily says that they had a tea party. Molly interrupts Emily, saying she loved the idea of the tea party and she asks her mom if they could have a tea party, Mrs.
McIntire says yes, suggesting that Emily could tell them what to do. Emily glowed as she agreed to help. She admits she didn't have a big birthday party since the war started, but she remembered a party she had when she was young.
After Emily explained how her party went, Molly notes that ti wounded like something a princess would do, and states that her birthday party would be the princesses tea party. Molly is then struck with an idea, and she asks Emily if she wanted to share her birthday with her to make up for the parties she missed. Emily blushed as she said it would be very nice. Molly knew that was an excited answer coming from Emily, and she knew she must be as pleased as she was herself.
The next day, the girls wrote out the birthday invitations. Emily showed Molly how the British wrote invitations and Molly found it wonderful. Molly suggests that they serve cocoa instead of tea as she doubted any of her friends drank tea. Emily says in England they had real tea, and suggests that they could put a lot of milk and honey in the tea. Molly guesses they could do that as she explains what they usually ate and drank at birthday parties.
Emily says that the English had tea sandwiches instead of hot dogs, and the sandwiches were thin and the crusts were cut off unlike American sandwiches. With her iconic pink-and-white dress, braided hair and gold earrings, Addy was described as courageous and strong.
Released in , Josefina represented New Mexico while it was still under Mexican rule, prior to ownership by the U. Josefina lived with her father and sisters; her mother had died before the start of her series. Josefina was recognizable by her long braided hair, faux leather lace-up moccasins and colorful clothes. To discover more deals, shopping tips and budget-friendly product recommendations, download the new TODAY app and subscribe to our Stuff We Love newsletter!
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