Happy Birthday Molly! (The American Girls Collection, A Springtime Story, Book Four)

by Valerie Tripp

Book Overview

Molly is excited to learn that an English girl is coming to stay at the McIntires - just in time for Molly's birthday! But Emily turns out to be different from the glamorous girl Molly pictured. Emily... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590450778
• ISBN13: 9780590450775
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 65 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Birthday To Remember

Happy Birthday Molly Molly McIntire is having a birthday. Birthdays were very special during World War 2, since sugar was rationed, and it was rare to have sweets. Molly finds out that an English girl will be staying with their family for awhile, and she is very excited. When Emily, the English girl, arrives, Molly and her friends, Susan and Linda, try to impress her with the bomb shelter they built in the basement. Emily, is not impressed. One evening, during a drill, the power goes out in the house. Molly's family gather, in their dining room, to wait it out. Emily is scared. She tells Molly that, in her country, they are not drills; they have real bombing raids. When the raids are over, homes are gone, and sometimes people are injured or killed. She doen't want to play in a bomb shelter, like Molly and her friends, because it brings back bad memories. Molly finds out that Emily has not had a real birthday party, in years. She decides to share her birthday with Emily. Molly allows Emily to plan an English tea party. When Emily says they can't have a cake at a real tea party and they have to drink tea, instead of punch, Molly is mad at the stuborn little English girl. Will Emily ruin everything? Will Molly have a birthday cake? Will the girls ever be friends again? My daughter and her two cousins planned a birthday party for their American Girl Dolls. They followed the recipes in the American Girl Cookbook and made food from the time period, for each doll. Karen dressed up her Molly doll, in her birthday dress, and the girls had a grand time. American Girls Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past With Meals You Can Cook Today Kirsten Mini Doll (American Girl)[[ASIN:1584854715 Molly Mini Doll (American Girl)]]Samantha Mini Doll Outfit Pattern Set 1 For American Girl Dolls The American Girls, Molly, Doll Dress Patterns Jill Ammon Vanderwood author: Through the Rug Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)

Probably my favorite Molly book!

This is another in the American Girls series about Molly McIntire, a ten-year-old girl living on the home front during World War 2. In this book, Molly is excited when she finds that a ten-year-old English girl is coming to live with them. However, when she arrives, instead of looking like a fairytale princess, the girl is quiet and highly reserved. While getting to know her, Emily learns how different England is from America, and how tragically harder the war has been for the English.This is probably my favorite Molly book! It shows how traumatic World War 2 was for those who lived it, and yet tells the story in an uplifting and entertaining way. My twelve-year-old daughter is a big fan of Molly, and so am I. We both highly recommend this book to you!

An informative, heart warming read

With the possible acception of Molly's Suppries, this was my favorit book in the Molly Micantier sieries. Molly and her friends don't realy understand the true gravity of the war. Oh, they know that Fathers and husbands are away on distant battle feilds, that mothers are working in Home-Front Red Cross orgonizations and that certin foods are rationed. They feel the war, but they don't understand the true eviles of the fighting- the innocent European familys starving, and rushing under bomb shelters in there living rooms at the sound of a warning sigren, the soldgers storming a far away beach on D-Day. THese are the things they see on News Reels and in Life Magizien. They even make a game out of it all, by bulding a pretend bomb shelter in Molly's basment! When Emily, a British girl comes to stay with the Micintiers, she shows Molly what the war is realy like. She tells here about distruction left buy bombs in England, about being traped for days in subway cars, and about Bomb shelters that, arn't just a game. Emily brings with her plenty of forgien British terms and ideas- some of wich step on Molly's toes. In the end, thogh, the girls learn to put aside there difrances and dissageements, and enjoy there birthdays as inter-national friends. I thought this book was wonderful. If you are interested in WW2, or if you just enjoy a good read, I recomend this book.

I thought it was so cool!

I thought the book was so cool. How an eglish girl was there for Mollys birthday.I wish they could come out of more books with Emily in them.And I'm happy that they got there dogs that they wished for.

An awesome book!

An English girl is going to stay with the McItires! She's going to be there on Molly's birthday! One night while Molly and Emily get into a fight and Molly sayas that Emily can't come to her party. What'll she do?