Molly Learns a Lesson

Molly's got a little bit of a manipulative streak, which I totally can relate with. I like the way this one works out in the end—it might be a bit easy, but it is a kid's book, after all.

I thought these books might be silly or feel too light, since these books were written to go along with actual dolls, thus they could have been very quick and simple. However, they don't smack of a marketing ploy; the author did a great job with them, and they're really just like any other book series written for kids this age. Also, the "Looking Back" section at the end of each book is really interesting! I love that it gives a little history of the time period, generally relating to the story, with pictures and even examples of show more ads/posters/propaganda from that time period. The focus is on children and even women, which is something that you really aren't going to see a lot of places. I think these books could be a great resource for teaching kids age 7 about the time period, how kids lived in those days, and the hardships they had to deal with. If I'd gotten to these books when my daughter was younger, I would have had her read them and then discussed them with her afterward. show less

Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance of getting along and pulling together -- just as her country has to do to win the war Molly plans a secret project to win her school's Lend-a-Hand Contest. But the project tums out to be harder than Molly had thought.

Molly is assigned a group project, and decides to keep her project a secret from the rest of the third grade girls. Will her competitative nature go too far when she starts spying on other groups' work?

Most of the girls thinking that making socks is a great idea for the school’s “Lend a Hand” contest, but Molly is convinced it will be a failure and convinces her two best friends to collect bottle caps with her. While collecting in the rain, they run into the other girls knitting their sock, and Molly sees them having trouble and comes up with the idea to turn the socks into a blanket. Then the girls all collect the bottle caps together.

A pretty cute book in the Molly series.

Molly plans a secret project to win her school's Lend-a-Hand Contest. But the project tums out to be harder than Molly had thought.

This Molly book was more enjoyable then the first one in this series.