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Joss Kendrick

Joss is a surfer, cheerleader - and the first visibly disabled doll from American Girl!

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Go to Space today with Luciana Vega, 2018's Girl of the Year

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From 1941 Hawaii, she learns the giving spirit in the midst of World War II

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Joss Kendrick
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May 14, 2020 / New Release
Cute At Heart and Travel
A new release focused on Truly Me has come out. It's focused on summer travel and trips, showing that the best-laid schemes o' dolls an' brands gang aft agley. Well, we can dream of future travel with:
Nethilia, The Admin, will likely not travel this summer
May 9, 2020 / This Week on the American Girl Library - Week Seven
This week's free books from the American Girl Online Library are Kaya: The Journey Begins, the accompanying teacher's guide, Smart Girl's Guide: Digital World, and Spark: A Guide to Ignite the Creativity Inside You.
Nethilia, The Admin
May 3, 2020 / This Week on the American Girl Library - Week Six
This week's free books from the American Girl Online Library are Joss, Josefina: Sunlight and Shadows, the accompanying teacher's guide, and Your Happiest You.
The books from Week 1 have been put back on the site; it seems the removal was a mistake.
Nethilia, The Admin
April 24, 2020 / This Week on the American Girl Library - Week Five
This week's free books from the American Girl Online Library are Melody: No Ordinary Sound, the accompanying teacher's guide, and A Smart Girl's Guide: Understanding Families.
The books from Week 1 have now been taken down and no longer available in the library, indicating books will be available for four weeks. The full series will run ten weeks.
Nethilia, The Admin
April 19, 2020 / This Week (and Last!) on the American Girl Library - Weeks Three and Four / Image Sourcing and Quality and How Failure Can Get You Banned
Last week's free books from the American Girl Online Library are The Feelings Book: The Care and Keeping of Your Emotions and The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls.
This week's free books are two Historical Character Mysteries: Samantha's The Curse of Ravenscourt and Felicity's Lady Margaret's Ghost.
All previous books offered are still available on the site at present.

News being stated, we now have to delve into policy. Because people aren't behaving.
I, Admin Nethilia, have been into American Girl in the most technical sense since 1986 when I first saw the ads for the first three in Doll Reader magazine, and part of the fandom since 2005. I know about various websites, including, say, one that is about the History of American Girl that is in my saved bookmarks and compares variants of American Girl illustrations that were changed for Samantha, Addy, Molly, and Felicity.
The scans of said illustrations are easily identifiable from that site. Which means uploading them here after taking them from that site violates our policies against swiping from other sites.
This Wiki's been around for over a decade. You would think by now the fact the images aren't up here would clue editors into the fact that this must not have been done for a good reason.
If I or any other admin cannot reliably trust any of your illustration image sources, we will go through and purge them all from the wiki files. Which wastes our time and yours. And then block the offender to make sure we don't have to deal with this again.
Good Article Images and You! states that improper images will be removed upon discovery and result in bans. I must not have been clear enough. Let me be explicit.
Bans for uploading images that are sourced to other sites starts at a month and can be extended to upwards of a year. They can even become indefinite--aka a permanent block--if you've done this before and/or we have to waste long spans of time to remove the offending images from both articles and the file database.
If you can't scan images from the books yourself, then you can wait until someone can. No images at all actually is preferred to blatant image theft.
Nethilia (Stay at Home, wash your hands for at least twenty seconds with soap and water, and wear your face masks if you can't be socially distant)
April 10, 2020 / This Week on the American Girl Online Library - Week Two
This week's free books from the American Girl Online Library are Kit: Read All About It!, the accompanying teacher's guide, and A Smart Girl's Guide: Money.
Nethilia, The Admin
March 28th, 2020 / American Girl and Responses to COVID-19/The American Girl Online Library - Week One
A lot has changed in a month due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
  • Starting March 15, all American Girl Place stores closed. While initially only cited as until at least March 27th, by April 4th American Girl confirmed they will remain closed until further notice.
  • American Girl is continuing to ship items from their warehouses and take online orders. However, their warehouse is in Wisconsin and the state may lock down to non-essential business closures at any given time.
  • Starting near the end of March, American Girl opened the Stay and Play website. This site has tips and activities for at-home fun. This includes free digital copies of various books at American Girl Online Library.. April 1st released digital copies of Nanea: The Spirit of Aloha, the accompanying teacher's guide, and A Smart Girl's Guide: Worry.
We are not a resource for information on health, safety, and/or protection. For that, please look up information through reliable sources, like the US CDC or your local state or national government. Stay home, stay apart from each other, and wash your hands.
Take care of yourselves. It's scary out there.
Nethilia, The Admin, is staying at home.
February 29th, 2020 / New Releases for Joss, Moddies, and Historicals
Happy Leap Day! We only get this day every four years so I hope you made it count.
This week, a small release came out with a little bit of everything for every line.
For Historical Characters:
For Joss's Collection:
For Truly Me, two new dolls are out:#86 and 88, the first dolls with brightly colored hair! Also are the following items (no new outfits):
For Bitty Baby:
For the WellieWishers:
I've already had to block-ban someone for using the wrong language for the disabled. Don't line up to be the next person on the ban list for poor behavior.
Nethilia, The Admin
January 2, 2020 / Disability and Language - New (Clarification) of Policy
Here at the A*G Wiki, we use the appropriate words for disabilities. Which is, in fact, disability or disabled. One of your admins is disabled. People with disabilities want to be called the terms they choose. Joss - as a character - is disabled. This is an appropriate term to use to discuss Joss; she is partially deaf or hard of hearing, and visibly disabled (as in, her disability is visible, not that she has a lack of visibility).
The term "disabled" is appropriate to use to refer to her as a character and a doll. "Cutesy" or covert language that tries to hide disability does not help people or show the actuality of their needs. Do not use cutesy or fluff language, nor condescending or rude language. This falls under our global rule of bigotry.

"It is okay to use words or phrases such as "disabled," "disability," or "people with disabilities" when talking about disability issues." Respectful Disability Language

This has now been clarified on the wiki under Disability and Language.
Nethilia, The Admin
December 31, 2019 / Joss Surfs in for 2020!
Joss surfs in!
Joss Kendrick has arrived! Along with the doll, her collection is as follows:
Purchasers can include donations to the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA).
There's also a small release for Truly Me - the Berry Fresh Collection:
Hip Hip Hooray! Don't get Blocked Today! Read the rules and write articles properly!
Nethilia, The Admin
December 31, 2019 / Joss Kendrick, GotY 2020
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Let's all cheer for Joss!

Source: Good Morning America, American Girl's 2020 Girl of the Year is First Doll with Hearing Loss
American Girl through Good Morning America has released information about the 2020 girl of the year, Joss Kendrick, who's a surfer and competitive cheerleader from southern California. Joss has hearing loss--fully deaf in one ear and partially in the other--and comes with a new, unique hearing aid. She also has a new face mold, the Joss Mold. AG worked with experts in hearing loss as well as portraying deaf characters; furthermore, they've also announced a $25,000 donation to support the work of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA).
Items will be released on the website and in previews at stores starting today, December 31st.
It's a whole new new release in a new decade - but the rules remain the same. We want good information, proper descriptions, and good pictures of items in the collection. The admin block finger stays itchy, especially in those first days of a new release when people suddenly act like they can't read the rules.
Nethilia, The Admin
December 29, 2019 / Banning for Leaks and Updates To The Rules
Please check updates to the Rumors, Leaks, and Hearsay rules. Specifically, that we do not accept YouTube reviewers or product hint videos as sources for upcoming product. Especially not for pictures. A screen cap is not a good picture source for products. In fact, it's a terrible one.
We still block for six months on the first offense. Even if we'll all know what's out in three days, that's not today, is it?
Nethilia, The Admin

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