Samantha's Oceanliner Adventure (American Girls Collection)
Scrapbook History Two titles in the American Girls Collection provide a unique  perspective on history with a handsome square scrapbook  presentation, including vintage-style postcards and pullout  souvenirs. The first, Molly's Route 66 Adventure by Dottie  Raymer, illus. by Nick Backes, takes readers for an eight-state  ride, from Illinois to California, along the Main Street of  America. In Samantha's Ocean Liner Adventure also by Raymer,  illus. by Dan Andreasen, readers can imagine a  turn-of-the-20th-century cruise aboard the S.S. Londonia.  Welcome to Kit's World 1934: Growing Up During America's Great  Depression by Harriet Brown, illus. by Walter Rane, Jean-Paul  Tibbles, Susan Moore, Susan McAiley and Philip Hood, in an  oversize volume, provides a well-researched and engaging account  of the era. (Mar.)Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.