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Pleasant Company
Pleasant Rowland, a former teacher, established the company in 1986 in Middleton, Wisconsin. (American Girl, 2024). -
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Pleasant Company
American Girl only available through mail order. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Pleasant Company acquired by Mattel
Pleasant Rowland sold American Girl to Mattel for $700 Million dollars. (American Girl, 2024). -
First American Girl Retail Store opens in Chicago
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Pleasant Rowland Retires
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Lindsay Bergman
Lindsey Bergman just wants to help out and fix things. She has an older brother named Ethan and a dog named Mr. Tiny. She loves to ride her scooter. Lindsey is described as being funny and good-hearted; however, she seems to always be in trouble. Lindsey is not very well-liked in school. She has a friend named April, who she thinks is a little strange. She plays the trumpet in the school band. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Kailey Hopkins
Kailey is a ten year old girl who lives in California. She loves the ocean and body surfing. She loves to visit the tide pools and surf with her best friend, Tess. Kailey is courageous, compassionate, and athletic. She is also very creative and determined, and curious about everything having to do with the tide pools or creatures in them. She becomes open to environmental activism over the course of her story. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Marisol Luna
Marisol Luna is a Latina specifically, Chicana girl who, lives with her parents Hector and Elisa in the very Latino-influenced neighborhood of Pilsen (a neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois). Marisol is an aspiring dancer. She primarily dances in the Mexican tradition of ballet folklorico, but has recently started ballet; she has only had a little jazz and tap training. She has a cat named Rascal. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Jess McConnell
Jess Akiko McConnell is ten years old and daughter of two archaeologists from Houghton, Michigan. Her father is of Irish and Scottish descent and her mother is of Japanese descent. She goes to Belize on a dig with her parents. Jess is in fourth grade and is home schooled on the trip to Belize. She likes animals, playing soccer and wants to be a professional soccer player or a professional snowboarder when she grows up. Jess is described as energetic and adventurous. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Nicki Fleming
Nicki Fleming is a ten year old girl living outside of Denver, Colorado. She has a younger brother, Adam. Her family owns a ranch, the Twilight Ranch, where they raise pigs for slaughter; they also keep horses as pets. Nicki is an artist and skier. (American Girl, 2024). -
Mia St. Clair
Mia is the youngest child and only daughter of Tom and Eve St. Clair. She lives in upstate New York. Everyone in her family is heavily involved with the local ice skating rink where they play hockey. Mia desires instead to be a figure skater. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Chrissa Maxwell
Chrissa is a ten year old girl who lives with her father, mother, brother Tyler and her Nana. She recently moved from Iowa to Edgewater, Minnesota to live with Nana following the death of her husband. Her family lives in an upper-class neighborhood. Chrissa is a very creative girl and knows how to knit as well as sew. She loves swimming and diving. She likes to help her dad with pottery. She is left-handed. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). Companion dolls Sonali Matthews and Gwen Thompson -
Chrissa Stands Strong (Movie)
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Lanie Holland
Lanie is a ten year old girl living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lanie has a younger sister named Emily and an older sister named Angela. She enjoys science and nature, and considers herself a scientist. She dreams of becoming an expert scientist and explore deep jungles in Asia, just like her Aunt Hannah, tracking wildlife, or trying experiments. She has a bunny named Lulu. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Kanani Akina
Kanani is a ten year old girl living on Kaua'i, Hawaii. Her father, is of Japanese-Hawaiian descent while her mother, is of French-German descent. She has a gift for photography, helps her parents run their shave ice shop. She is passionate about protecting Hawaiian wildlife. She has a rooster named Jinx, a dog named Barksee, and a goat named Mochi. Kanani enjoys swimming, her parents call her a mermaid. She dislikes surfing. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
McKenna Brooks
McKenna is a ten-year-old girl in fourth grade who lives on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington. McKenna is described as strong-willed, ambitious and determined. She wants to become an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics. She is skilled in gymnastics but struggles with her schoolwork, specifically reading comprehension. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
McKenna Shoots for the Stars (Movie)
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Saige Copeland
Saige is a ten year old girl who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She loves art and horseback riding, a passion she shares with her grandmother, Mimi. She attends Mesa Grande Elementary School. She is an only child; her parents are Marina Copeland, a math professor, and David Copeland, an airline pilot. Saige has a pet dog named Sam and a horse named Georgia. (American Girl, 2024). -
Saige Paints the Sky (Movie)
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Isabelle Palmer
Isabelle is a nine year old girl who lives in Washington, DC with her parents, Leo and Nancy, and her older sister Jade. Nancy is a textile artist and Leo is a hospital administrator and a jazz musician. She is enrolled in her dream school, Anna Hart School of the Arts, which Jade also attends. Isabelle loves to dance and performs in ballet and modern dance. She has a white kitten named Tutu. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Isabelle Dances into the Spotlight (Movie)
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Grace Thomas
Grace Thomas is a nine year old girl who lives in Bentwick, Massachusetts with her mom, dad, and older brother Josh. She loves to go to her grandparents' bakery. Grace loves to bake and wants to start a business with her friends. She gets a French Bulldog named Bonbon over the course of her stories. Her friends are Maddy Eaton, an artist and Ella Petronia, a math whiz. Together the three of them create a business called La Petite Patisserie. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Grace Stirs Up Success (Movie)
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Lea Clark
Lea lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her mom and dad. She has an older brother named Zac. She has a pet turtle named Ginger. Lea loves to take photographs with her camera. Lea won third place in a national kids' magazine contest. Her friends are Abby Hudson and Camila Cavalcante, a girl who Lea met in Brazil. She is in the fifth grade at Lafayette Square Elementary School. Lea is 1/8th Brazilian. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Lea To the Rescue (Movie)
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Gabriela McBride
Gabriela is a ten year old African American Girl. She is a dancer and poet who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an only child and lives with her parents, her cousin Red who is staying with them while his mom is overseas serving in the military. She has a stutter, and uses spoken word poetry and speech therapy to help. She dances tap, hip-hop, and ballet at her community center, Liberty Arts. She loves poetry, and is very good at writing. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Luciana Vega
Luciana is an eleven year old girl of Chilean descent. She aspires to be the first person to explore Mars, and refers to herself as the "Future First Girl on Mars." She enters an essay contest to get into Space Camp and wins with her paper on space rocks. Luciana is bilingual, and can speak both English and Spanish fluently. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Blaire Wilson
Blaire is a ten year old girl who lives on the Pleasant View Farm Bed and Breakfast. She is very creative, responsible and hard-working. She has a younger brother. Blair loves caring for the animals on the farm such as; Penelope the lamb, Dash the goat and Dandelion the Silkie chicken. Her favorite thing to do is to help her Mom cook meals for the guests in the kitchen. She enjoys spending time on her tablet, playing games or talking to her friends. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Joss Kendrick
Joss is a ten year old girl who lives in Fountain Valley, California. She surfs, skateboards, and cheerleads. She was born with hearing loss. Joss is fully deaf in her left ear and wears a hearing aid in her right ear to assist the low level of hearing she has. Joss can lip read. She often communicates with American Sign Language (ASL). (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Kira Bailey
Kira is a ten year old girl living in Michigan with her mother, a middle school teacher. They foster kittens for a local shelter. Her father died three years ago. Her paternal family owns the Bailey Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia; the sanctuary has been with the family since the 1800s. Kira loves animals of all kinds and wants to work with them as a career, as either a veterinarian or scientist. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Pleasant Rowland
American Girl Dolls inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. (American Girl, 2024). -
Corinne Tan
Corinne is a ten year old Chinese American girl living in Aspen, Colorado with her mother Judy, stepfather Arne, and younger sister, Gwynn. The two sisters spend weekends with their father, David Tan. Corinne is in the fifth grade and speaks both Chinese and English. Corinne enjoys skiing and worries a lot about things, but does not voice her concerns or discomfort often. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Kavi Sharma
Kavi Sharma is a twelve year old Indian girl living in Metuchen, NJ. Her full name is Kavika. She enjoys songwriting, showtunes, dance (hip-hop and traditional Indian dance), and performing. She attends a Broadway performance of Wicked, which inspires her to take up performing. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
American Girl: Corinne Tan (Movie)
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Lila Monetti
Lila is a ten year old girl living in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is of Italian heritage and lives with her parents and her younger brother Jack. She trains in gymnastics, coached by McKenna Brooks (now an adult). She attends riding camp to help give her confidence in her skills and befriends a palomino horse named Hollyhock. (American Girl Wiki, 2024). -
Summer McKini
I am a dog lover, craft maker, and great baker. And my big idea? To launch a small business of my own.
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