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Valerie Tripp

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in Mount Kisco, New York, The United States

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Children's

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Valerie Tripp is a children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl series.

She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York with three sisters and one brother. A member of the first co-educated class at Yale University, Tripp also has a M.Ed. from Harvard. Since 1985 she has lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her husband teaches history at Montgomery College.

Right out of college, Tripp started writing songs, stories, and nonfiction for The Superkids Reading Program, working with Pleasant Rowland, the founder of American Girl. For that series, Tripp wrote all the books about Felicity, Josefina, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen and many of the books about Samantha. She also wrote the "Best Friends" character stories to date, plays, mysteri ...more

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Check out Facebook and Instagram to hear the first chapter of "Read All About It," read aloud. Such fun to do!

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	Meet Felicity: An American Girl (American Girls: Felicity, #1) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Dan Andreasen (Illustrator), Luann Roberts (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 13,079 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Molly: An American Girl (American Girls: Molly, #1) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), C.F. Payne (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 10,709 ratings — published 1986 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felicity: An American Girl, 1774 4.04 avg rating — 7,395 ratings — published 1992 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Kit: An American Girl 1934 (American Girls: Kit, #1) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Walter Rane (Illustrator), Tamara England (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 5,853 ratings — published 2000 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Birthday Samantha!: A Springtime Story (American Girls: Samantha, #4) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Robert Grace, Nancy Niles 4.01 avg rating — 5,695 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Josefina: An American Girl (American Girls: Josefina, #1) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Jean-Paul Tibbles (Illustrator), Susan McAliley 3.96 avg rating — 5,702 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felicity Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Felicity, #5) 3.92 avg rating — 5,671 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samantha Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Samantha, #5) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Robert Grace, Nancy Niles 4.10 avg rating — 5,386 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molly: An American Girl, 1944 3.98 avg rating — 5,462 ratings — published 1990 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story (American Girls: Samantha, #6) by Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author), Dan Andreasen (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 5,023 ratings — published 1988 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Valerie Tripp

American Girl: Molly (6 books)
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Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author)

3.98 avg rating — 43,897 ratings

American Girl: Felicity (6 books)
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3.95 avg rating — 44,117 ratings

American Girl: Kit (6 books)
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Valerie Tripp (Goodreads Author),

Walter Rane (Illustrator)

4.05 avg rating — 26,618 ratings

American Girl: Josefina (6 books)
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3.96 avg rating — 22,928 ratings

American Girl: Short Stories (43 books)
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3.88 avg rating — 12,229 ratings

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“If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.”
― Valerie Tripp

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“Think ere you speak”
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“continues: For Kit, the Depression has brought big changes: a houseful of boarders, tons of chores, and no birthday party. But when Kit’s taste for adventure gets her into trouble, she discovers that”
― Valerie Tripp, Read All About It: A Kit Classic Volume 1

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