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|name = ''True Stories''<br />
|image = TrueStories.jpg<br />
|imagewidth = 300px<br />
|caption = The cover of ''True Stories''<br />
|published = 2003<br />
|author = Submitted Letters <br />
|illustrator = [[Amanda Haley]]<br />
|isbn = 978-1584857440<br />
}}<br />
'''''True Stories:''' Girls' Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart'' is a [[List of Generic American Girl Items|American Girl book]] focusing on real-life stories submitted by readers. <br />
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==Contents==<br />
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The stories are taken from [[American Girl Magazine]], which included a section in the magazine to publish true stories submitted by its readers.<br />
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===Giving Back===<br />
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* Two sisters cut their hair to donate to [http://www.locksoflove.org/ Locks of Love].<br />
* A reader with alopecia areata receives a wig from Locks of Love.<br />
* A girl and her golden retriever go to hospitals to encourage and cheer patients while helping with their therapy.<br />
* One reader started ''Kids Helping Kids'', which buys videos for children in hospitals to watch during their stay.<br />
* One girl started a business called ''Devon's Heal the World'', and collects cans to recycle.<br />
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===Disaster===<br />
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* One family's house is destroyed by a tornado, and is uninhabitable for six months.<br />
* A reader and her family survives a severe flood for two weeks.<br />
* A wild fire threatens a girl's ranch, animals, and family.<br />
* One reader spends overnight in an [[Wikipedia:Arby's|Arby's]] restaurant because of a severe snowstorm.<br />
* A girl and her parents were struck by lightning while hiking.<br />
* A bear invades a family's home.<br />
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===Friends===<br />
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* A reader finds an unexpected friend through a pen pal relationship that helped her deal with a painful divorce. The friend also gives her story about how her pen pal helped her face a difficult move.<br />
* One girl becomes a comedian with the encouragement of her family. <br />
* One reader discusses her experience of going through a normal school day in a wheelchair.<br />
* A girl and her mother improve their shaky relationship through a book club.<br />
* Two cousins solved a case and help find a missing boy.<br />
* One girl and her mother find a bag filled with $600 in cash in the parking lot, and seek out the owner.<br />
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===Rescues===<br />
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* A girl chokes on a jawbreaker and is saved by her friend. The girl who saved her has a second story.<br />
* A family rescues a dog that fell off a bridge.<br />
* A reader takes control of a runaway bus when the driver fainted.<br />
* Two friends save a drowning kitten, purposely thrown in a lake by a boater.<br />
* One girl finds an abandoned man with a broken leg calling for help on a random radio channel.<br />
* A reader raises money and starts a club to rescue chimps in Africa.<br />
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===Obstacles===<br />
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* One reader forms a group at her school to prevent bullying.<br />
* A girl records a CD to help raise awareness for Lyme disease, which took the life of her golden retriever.<br />
* A reader raises $8,500 through a lemonade stand for the Red Cross, after her cousin's life was claimed in the 9-11 terrorist attack.<br />
* One girl learns to swim, her favorite sport, again after falling from a horse and paralyzing her right arm.<br />
* A reader overcomes her mother's death from cancer.<br />
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===Heroes===<br />
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* One reader and her two cousins were almost attacked by an angry mother moose, but saved by her Alaskan malamute.<br />
* A softball team renames their playing field after a young teammate that died of a brain tumor.<br />
* A girl remembers the donor that supplied her crucial bone marrow transplant: a firefighter who later died in the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.<br />
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===My True Story===<br />
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Several sheets of watercolor , splotched purple, pink, blue, and green paper is included in the back for a girl to tell her own personal true story. There is a small red and pink heart illustration in the lower-right hand corner of each page. The address of the editor and mailing instructions are printed on the back of the last page.<br />
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[[Category:Books]]<br />
[[Category:Miscellaneous Items]]<br />
[[Category:Items Released in 2003]]<br />
[[Category:American Girl Library]]<br />
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