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{{infobox book
| name = ''Changes For Kit''
| image = Kit6_3.jpg
| imagewidth = 300px
| caption = The last available individual cover of ''Changes For Kit.''
| published = 2002
| author = [[Valerie Tripp]]
| illustrator = [[Walter Rane]]<br>[[Susan McAliley]] (vignettes)
| isbn = 1584850264
| setting = February, 1934
| prev = ''[[Kit Saves the Day]]''
}}'''''Changes for Kit''''' is the [[Central_Series|sixth book]] in the '''[[List of Kit's Books|Kit series]]'''.

==Characters==

* [[Kit Kittredge]]
* [[Jack Kittredge]]
* [[Margaret Kittredge]]
* [[Charles Kittredge]]
* [[Ruthie Smithens]]
* [[Stirling Howard]]
* [[Louise Howard]]
* [[Hendrick Frosbythe]]
* [[Minor Characters in Kit's Series (H-R)#Miss Hart|Miss Hart]]
* [[Minor Characters in Kit's Series (A-G)#Miss Finney|Miss Finney]]
* [[Minor Characters in Kit's Series (S-Z)#Stan Smithens|Stan Smithens]]

===Introduced===
* [[Minor Characters in Kit's Series (A-G)#Mr. Gibson|Mr. Gibson]]

===Only in ''Changes for Kit''===
* [[Minor Characters in Kit's Series (H-R)#Mr. Hesse|Mr. Hesse]] (mentioned)

==Chapter by Chapter Summary==

===Chapter One: Something Wonderful===

===Chapter Two: To Do===

===Chapter Three: Letters with an "S"===

===Chapter Four: The Perfect Word===

===[[Looking Back]]: Changes for America===

Discusses the continuation and eventual end of the Great Depression. Topics include:

* How people coped with the Great Depression past 1934, which extended until the early 1940s in the US, and how times remained hard even if families had made ends meet despite lost jobs
* The [[Wikipedia:Emergency Banking Act|Emergency Banking Act]], one of the first official acts newly elected President Roosevelt undertook to deal with banks by insuring that funds on failed banks would be insured and returned to depositors, thus preventing further bank runs.
* The [[Wikipedia:National Recovery Administration|National Recovery Administration]], one of the [[Wikipedia:Alphabet agencies|New Deal agencies]] created
* The [[Wikipedia:Civil Works Administration|Civil Works Administration]], one of the shorter-lived New Deal agencies
* The [[Wikipedia:Works Progress Administration|Works Progress Administration]], which replaced the CWA and lasted longer
* The creation of the Social Security System, which provided and secured retirement funds for workers.
* [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Roosevelt|Eleanor Roosevelt's]] role in aiding President Roosevelt's administration due to his polio disabilities
* Criticism of the Roosevelt administration by those who considered it meddling in business and wasteful, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt's involvement
* The slow, slight improvement in people's lives as the Depression dragged on, including the [[Wikipedia:Dust Bowl|Dust Bowl's]] effects on the Midwest farms and the 1937 recession
* How a new crisis helped end the Depression: Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as his persecution of Jews, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, and any people whose politics or lifestyles did not match Hitler's vision for Germany's future
* America's policy of [[Wikipedia:United States non-interventionism#Isolationism Between the Two World Wars|non-interventionism]] meaning not declaring war on Germany and choosing instead to manufacture weapons for America's allies fighting directly with Germany following the start of World War II as a way to end the Depression
* America's formal entry into World War II following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941<ref>This era was covered later by the release of [[Nanea Mitchell]]; the events of America's entry into the war were not covered by [[Molly McIntire]].</ref>
* Possible things Kit would have been doing during the war such as war news journalism, a nurse, or a factory worker
* The similarities in the way Americans used resourcefulness, hard work, cooperation, and compassing during both the Depression and World War II, and how Americans weer ready to return to stability, peace, and prosperity once World War II ended<ref>The American post-war boom era was later covered by the release of [[Maryellen Larkin]].</ref>

==Book Covers==

<gallery position="center" widths="200" spacing="small">
Kit6v1.jpg|First cover from 2002-2004.
File:Kit6_3.jpg|Second cover from 2004-2014.
</gallery>

==Items associated with ''Changes for Kit''==
* [[Kit's Winter Coat]]
* [[Beret and Mittens]]
* [[Kit's Photography Set]]

==References==

{{Refs}}

{{Stub}}
[[Category:Kit Kittredge]]
[[Category:Kit's Collection]]
[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:Winter Books]]
[[Category:Winter Collections]]
[[Category:Central Series]]
[[Category:Historical Books]]
[[Category:Items Released in 2001]]
[[Category:Items Released in 2002]]

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