High Hopes for Addy (American Girls Short Stories #4)

by American Girls: Short Stories (Series)

Other authorsConnie Rose Porter (Author)
Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

Fic Ame

Call number

Fic Ame

Local notes

Fic Ame

Barcode

694

Collection

Publication

American Girl (1999), Edition: English Language, Hardcover, 39 pages

Description

Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860s continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her for the Institute for Colored Youth. Includes informational pages about the Institute for Colored Youth and how to make a kite.

Physical description

39 p.; 6.06 inches

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Addy’s life is full of excitement with a kite contest and acceptance into the Institute for Colored Youth, but her dreams stop soaring when she finds out the cost of the school and sees how plane her homemade kite looks. It is her little sister, Esther, who finds the letter (by destructively
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going through Addy’s things as usual) so that her family tells her they’ll get the money so she can go.
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39

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