I love my readers! You guys always find the best stuff. Here is a two page spread advertising the new American Girl Doll of the Year movie that will go with the doll. The title is Chrissa Stands Strong and will star Sammi Hanratty, Annabeth Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Don Franklin, Adair Tishler, Joanne Barron, Jennifer Tilly and Michael Learned. The movie is based on the Chrissa Stories by Mary Casanova.

The story will be about Chrissa Maxwell, a young girl who moves to a new school mid-year. She has to deal with making friends, dealing with bullies and standing up for yourself. Chrissa is a swimmer – which is where she has the most trouble with a rival. This looks like a great dvd and series for helping girls deal with real life issues – in school, in sports and even online.

The DVD comes out January 6, 2009.

The next American Girl to see her story make it to film? Julie Albright. “We are developing the Julie character,” Goldsmith-Thomas said, “and we’re doing her as a musical, as a high school musical.”

“We’re going to have all those great songs from the ’70s,” she continued. “Julie: An American Girl Musical. It’s in San Francisco.”

The movie is just in outline form as of now, so Goldsmith-Thomas was unable to confirm much more about it, but she did say the music will include both original songs written for the movie as well as music from the 1970s, and that they intend to do more open auditions like they did for Kit Kittredge. “Oh, you betcha,” she said.

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The game involves solving 6 different mysteries based on the Kit stories that focus on the boarders who stay in the Kittredge house during the hard economic times of the 1930s. Two of the mysteries are the Case of the Missing Rose and the Case of the Lost Pearls. Explore Kit’s hometown, collect clues as you talk to townspeople, track the evidence in Kit’s Clue Book and use put it all together to solve the mysteries. You also get to dress Kit in 6 different outfits through out the game.

My girls have really enjoyed the Julie DS game and I’m sure they will want this one too, especially once they see the Kit movie. 

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