Amelia's Best Year Ever: Favorite Amelia Stories from American Girl Magazine

Marissa Moss. American Girl Publishing Inc, $5.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-1-58485-712-9

Spend a year with Amelia in Amelia's Best Year Ever: Favorite Amelia Stories from American Girl Magazine by Marissa Moss. Amelia shares stories from the beginning of the school year to summer days at the pool in her characteristic notebook diary format. She introduces each season with scrapbook pages of best and worst things: ""What I love about winter: toe socks-they're like gloves for your feet!... Bad things about winter: icicles dripping from your nose.""

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