28: Queen Bees and Spelling Bees: Addy Learns a Lesson

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Newly arrived in Philadelphia, Addy and her mother set out to build a new life. Addy begins attending school and quickly learns the value of good friends (we see you Sarah) and the lure of the mean girl (not cool, Harriet). On Wednesdays, Addy wears pink, but when it comes to the big spelling bee, she crushes it in a new blue dress. As Mary and Allison review this Porter classic, they consider the careful treatment of both friendship & literacy. Filled with a cast of new and rich characters, Addy’s second story exposes northern racism, segregation, and the challenge of making a new life. Join us and dive into a book that makes you cherish your friends and favorite stories more than you already do.

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0:00.0	So Allison, as you know on this show and in this whole world of American Girls
0:12.0	Podcast, we're constantly living in a
0:14.4	bachelorette mansion where we get to give out roses to some of our heroes and
0:18.5	unfortunately ask some of them to go home and start new lives as Instagram influencers.
0:24.0	Yeah, and it's really hard because sometimes, you know, we've been able to fill up this beautiful
0:28.0	house with people that we really admire and we know that it's the right thing to send them out to sell gummy bear hair and extensions but we really want to keep them around.
0:40.0	We have your Ann M Martin, we have your Francine Pascal Connie Porter has joined the mix we have so many people
0:47.3	Carolyn Keene is here right? Wow beautiful and I mean JK Rowling was here, she unfortunately was sent home.
0:53.6	She was, yeah, there was some issues there.
0:56.0	But she did quote her own tattoo on her way out the door, so I did appreciate that.
1:00.3	But you know, there's someone here and we're really debating whether or not we give her a rose.
1:03.9	And I really, I don't know how to solve this.
1:06.1	I'm talking, of course, about Ann Rinaldi.
1:08.4	Do we have to do a two-on-one?
1:10.3	I think Allison, that's what's required here.
1:12.4	And you know, I only have one question.
1:14.6	Do you have time for drums? Is there time enough for drums? Welcome everyone to American Girls Podcast, the podcast where we're reliving the American Girls series book by book.
1:35.0	I'm Mary.
1:37.0	I'm still Allison.
1:38.0	And you know in our little intro, we were teasing the fact that very, very soon we're going to be taking on one
1:45.4	Ann Rinaldi. We are and it's something that we promised way back during Felicity
1:49.6	times and it is something that has come back into my life and it's been a really rude
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