Hobos and Bums and Tramps, oh my! When a young hobo wanders into Kit's backyard, she's immediately adventure-cucked. Living in a tent, eating communal hobo soup? What a treat! What a dream! 

Wrong! Turns out, being a vagabond is not nearly as cool as it seems, and actually scary! Oops! We could not have predicted this. 

Chapters 

0:00 - Our Darkest Book Yet 

2:01 - Chapter One: Stuck! 

10:02 - Chapter Two: Just Plain Will 

23:40 - Chapter Three: The Hobo Jungle 

33:50 - Chapter Four: Do Something 

46:29 - Peek into the Past: Too Poor for Summer! 

57:33 - Closing Thoughts: Dark!

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The eggman cometh! Join us as we celebrate (or barely reference) Kit's upcoming 10th birthday!

When Aunt Millie comes to town, she brings with her tons of ideas on how the Kittredges can actually save money and turn a profit with their failing boarding house business - but will the Kittredges be happy with these changes, or will they be inexplicably shamed by the idea of eating peaches out of a dented can? Only time will tell, and boy, does this book take its time getting to the point! This book? Boring. This episode? Very entertaining. So listen in, lest you summon the wrath of the ragman!

Chapters

0:00 - We're so back! What happened in this book?

7:45 - Chapter One: Secrets and Surprises

18:11 - Chapter Two: The Waste-Not Want-Not Almanac

34:23 - Chapter Three: Grace

44:31 - Chapter Four: The Penny Pincher Party

55:10 - Peek into the Past: Dad's Can Abandon Kids!

1:00:00 - Final Thoughts: Do You Believe in the Eggman?

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It's a Depression-era Christmas, and Kit is NOT feeling the Christmas cheer - if you can even believe. Between Ruthie's dad threatening to evict her family as a New Year's gift and Ruthie giving her hand-me-down dresses, Kit is at her limit with financial stress, as any nine-year-old would be. But can she turn her Christmas around by performing a series of increasing random errands for her curmudgeonly uncle? Is it still "American Girl Talk" if Caroline is recording in Romania? Tune in to find out!

Chapters

0:00 - Intro: Romanian Girl Talk!

9:48 - Chapter One: Rick Rack

22:06 - Chapter Two: The Bright Red Dress

38:24 - Chapter Three: The Wicked Ogre

47:37 - Chapter Four: Jewels

58:58 - Peek into the Past: A Depressing Christmas!

1:04:01 - Final Thoughts: Best Doll Award?

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Our very first book where no lesson is learned - potentially! It's Thanksgiving at the Kittredge boarding house, and Kit is FED UP with all the boarders cramping her style. Dad will get a job any day, so there's no point in having them there, right? RIGHT? Wrong! Turns out, you can't trust adults to be honest, but you can trust us to give you the DL on everything happening in Kit's world on this week's episode. Tune in - gobble gobble!

Chapters

0:00 - Intro: Valerie strikes again

3:37 - Chapter One: Messages

17:19 - Chapter Two: Pilgrims and Indians

28:55 - Chapter Three: Spilling the Beans!

36:44 - Chapter Four: Kit's Hard Times

47:50 - Peek into the Past: School - incredibly depressing!

49:50 - Final Thoughts: Did Kit learn a lesson?

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America may be depressed, but we certainly aren't (sometimes)! It's time to meet Kit - our spunky, plucky, Depression-era daddy's girl who just discovered her family is headed towards financial ruin! When a ghoulish boy and his maybe-questionable-mother move into the Kittredge house, Kit discovers that life is not fair, and Caroline and Celia wonder why the adults in Kit's world lie so much. 

Chapters

0:00 - Intro: New Girl Alert! Caroline's Golden Gal and the Return of Valerie

5:16 - Chapter One: Good News

20:58 - Chapter Two: Read All About It!

31:09 - Chapter Three: It's Not Fair!

41:37 - Chapter Four: Mother's Brainstorm

54:31 - Peek into the Past: Depression? Very Depressing!

1:02:00 - Closing Thoughts

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You heard it here last, folks! American Girl just released their new Girl of the Year, and she comes equipped with clothes, accessories, and...Samantha lore? Tune in for a quick lil' snack of an episode where we discuss this breaking news!

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It's time for another yap! We're taking a week off from reading about American Girls and we're simply talking about American Girls - Kirsten, Samanth, Molly, Felictiy, Addy, and Josefina! Join us as we rank, rant, rave and review what we've noticed and who's won our hearts. PLUS: Celia does some snooping and gets to the bottom of our frenemy, Valerie Tripp's relationship to the American Girl Doll brand. 

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WE WERE SO RIGHT. Love is IN THE AIR in the land of enchantment, but yearning is also at full throttle - and Papa and Tia Dolores do not know what to do with themselves! When Tia Dolores announces she's going to leave the rancho and move to Santa Fe, Josefina full-on crashes out because she KNOWS Tia Dolores is meant to be with Papa. Can Josefina mastermind the relationship into existence? We're literally giggling, kicking our feet, listening to this one, so tune in!

Chapters

0:00 - Intro: We were SO RIGHT

3:02 - Chapter One: Gifts and Blessings

19:36 - Chapter Two: Sleet

42:03 - Chapter Three: Josefina's Plan

49:38 - Chapter Four: Heart and Hope

1:01:36 - Peek into the Past: Oops - Manifest Destiny!

1:08:59 - Closing Thoughts: Goodbye to our delicious slowburn

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We can't even focus on this book because of the sheer amount of tension between Papa and Tía Dolores, but... 

Josefina and her family are in Santa Fe to trade goods and save the ranch! When Josefina encounters the Rizzmaster Señor O'Toole, he says that he can help her family earn the money they need AND throw in something a lil extra to make Josefina's day! But can we trust this Americano? Are all people who play music inherently good? Have Papa and Tía Dolores touched each other, or are they straight yearning? Are we delulu? Find out!

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Josefina's name day fast approaches, and she's LOCKED IN on becoming a healer. She's fostering goats, sniffing herbs, and cleaning pots off tall shelves - but will it be enough? Only time and bizarre circumstances will tell, so join us as we hyperfixate on what papa and Tia Dolores are doing, speculate on the logistics of snake attacks, and wonder if mallow root really could save the day!

Chapters

0:00 - Intro: Are Papa and Tía Dolores F*cking?

3:54 - Chapter One: Spring Sprouts

19:23 - Chapter Two: Tía Magdalena

30:11 - Chapter Three: Second Chances

40:57 - Chapter Four: Rattlesnake!

51:27 - Peek into the Past: Childbirth and Suspicious Wedding Lore

56:11 - Closing Thoughts: A Manic Episode, and a Budding Romance

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