Nellie's promise : 1906

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Title:

Nellie's promise : 1906

Author:

Tripp, Valerie, 1951- author.

Andreasen, Dan, illustrator.

McAliley, Susan, illustrator.

Series:

American girls collection;

Summary:

Samantha's friend, Nellie O'Malley finally has a home again. She and her little sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are happily settling in with Samantha's family in New York City. Best of all Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia want to adopt the girls. But then Uncle Mike shows up and threatens to ruin everything-- including Nellie's friendship with Samantha! Can Nellie find a way to keep her promise without losing her new family?

Audience:

For ages 8 and up.

Physical Description:

85 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

Parkington, Samantha (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.

Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.

Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.

United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Andreasen, Dan,

McAliley, Susan,

Publisher:

Pleasant Co. Publications,

Publication Date:

2004

ISBN:

9781584858935

Publication Information:

Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co. Publications, c2004.

Call Number:

J AMERICA N

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- This is a companion book to the Samantha series. Samantha is one of the most popular and best-selling AGC characters. Readers who liked Samantha's stories will want to find out more about what happens to Nellie. It is definitely Nellie's story, but Samantha features prominently and emerges with new dimension in this story.
- This is a wonderfully told story about a much-loved secondary character that readers have asked us about for years.
- The Nellie doll that will be sold starting in July will help bring more attention to Nellie's Promise. The American Girl catalogue with the Nellie doll with reach millions of households, as does our website.
- Nellie will feature prominently in the Samantha movie in November 2004, so we expect that there will be renewed interest in everything related to Samantha.
- In addition to being a story about the tricky challenges of best friends becoming sisters, this story provides a perspective on families and adoption at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Nellie's determination to keep her promise to her mother, to take care of her sisters, and to find her own path--even when it is different from Samantha's--demonstrates courage, integrity, and a sense of personal responsibility that girls will recognize and admire.

Author Notes

Valerie Tripp graduated with honors from the first coeducational class at Yale University in 1973. She received a Masters of Education from Harvard University in 1981. From 1974 to 1980, she was a writer for the Addison-Wesley Reading Program. She then became a freelance writer for The Hampton-Brown Company and ELHI Publishers Services creating educational materials for major publishers.

In 1983, Tripp and Pleasant Rowland decided to write a series of books about girls growing up all over the country during some of the most historical events of the past. Rowland envisioned the books as one of the cornerstones of a new company she had just founded called the Pleasant Co. Tripp's first assignment for Pleasant Co. was writing four of the six books about Samantha, a girl in turn-of-the-century America. Tripp then wrote about Felicity, Molly, and Josephina for the American Girls series. Her other works include the Hopscotch Hill School series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-5-Nellie O'Malley lost both of her parents to influenza and she is charged with caring for her younger sisters, Bridget and Jenny. Forced to live with their vile Uncle Mike, who took their money and abandoned them, the girls ended up in an orphanage, where Nellie's friend Samantha found them and took them to live with her at her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia's house. In this companion to the "Samantha" books (Pleasant Company), the sisters are not only taken care of, but also surrounded by a loving family. When Uncle Mike reappears and threatens to take them away, Nellie fears that she may lose her happy new home. The plot has just the right amount of action and suspense to keep the story moving. Nellie struggles mightily to solve her problems on her own, and is a strongly developed protagonist. Samantha is also a fully realized character, and the girls' interaction is realistic. The ending comes to a fitting conclusion that will leave readers satisfied. An enlightening historical endnote describes "Adoption in 1906" and the plight of orphans. Interspersed throughout the text are charming and vibrant, full-page color paintings as well as tiny scenes of people and places. Another winning entry and a natural progression from the "Samantha" series (Pleasant Company).-Kristen Oravec, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Strongsville, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Nellie's Family and Friends
Chapter 1 The Luckiest Girl	p. 1
Chapter 2 The Settlement House	p. 19
Chapter 3 The Letter	p. 37
Chapter 4 Telling the Truth	p. 57
Looking Back	p. 73
A Sneak Peek at Meet Samantha	p. 81

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