Three more installments about Felicity, a wholesome young girl living in colonial Williamsburg. Each predictable story is full of unbelievable coincidences and contrived situations, but young female fans of series books will lap these up. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Gr. 2-5. From the American Girls series, three more stories about Felicity, a girl living in colonial Williamsburg. In Birthday, she loses favor with her grandfather when she mistreats a gift from him, then regains his respect with an act of courage. In Saves, she finds her beloved horse Penny (lost in book one) and helps her father's apprentice, Ben, when he is hurt while running away to join General Washington. Changes brings the jailing of Felicity's best friend's father as a Loyalist. Felicity secretly helps an old enemy and copes with the death of her grandfather and the birth of Penny's foal. Felicity lives in a world where even the villains are reformed by simple acts of kindness, but it's a world that many readers will be more than happy to revisit. And if they learn a little history while they're with Felicity in Williamsburg, so much the better. Following the usual format of the series, appealing full-color paintings, both full page and vignette, will illustrate the books and a few pages of readable social history will be appended. ~--Carolyn Phelan