History Characters / AmericanGirlsCollectionGirlsOfTheYear

* FireyRedhead: Saige is a girl with red hair, but despite the scene where she explodes at Dylan in the movie, she is very shy and caring.

* NewFriendEnvy: Saige becomes insecure after her best friend, Tess, makes a new friend at music camp.

* Tomboy: Lanie is one of the more tomboyish Girls of the Year due to her energetic and outgoing personality, not minding getting her hands dirty, and her dream of being a scientist.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Joss is active and a PassionateSportsGirl who focuses on surfing while her friend from cheerleading, Brooklyn, is a cheerful cheerleader.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Joss is usually very sporty and loves to surfboard, but finds she enjoys getting dolled up in sparkles and pink for cheerleading.

* BullyingTheDisabled: Aaliyah mocks Gabriela for her stutter at first, but then, the two of them become friends in 'Gabriela: Time for Change.'

* GameBreakingInjury: Mimi is put out of commission for quite some time after getting tripped by her new kitten.

* Tomboy: She is the most tomboyish out of all the other Girls of the Year. She climbs trees, she dislikes girly stuff (including tutus on guinea pigs), and she rides her scooter.

A deaf surfer who, after a dare from her older brother, tries out for the cheerleading team and gets on, discoving she can enjoy both sports. She is the first visibly disabled character and the doll included hearing aids. She was released in 2020 and remained until 2022.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Sonali, Chrissa and Gwen in the movie.]]

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[[caption-width-right:278:Lindsey on her book cover.]]
* AlphaBitch: Blair Kolinski and Missy Rizzo.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Lindsey, along with the only other Jewish dolls so far, is Ashkenazi.

* BoyishShortHair: She is one of the only two American Girl Dolls with short hair, following Kit.

* CuteClumsyGirl: Lindsey.

* EndearinglyDorky: Lindsey to a T.
* EpicFail: Everything Lindsey attempts.

* PluckyGirl: Lindsey.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Everything Lindsey tries.

* TroubledProduction: Lindsey was first released only ten days before September 11, 2001. While this isn't CONFIRMED to be the reason she had low sales...

* TheWoobie: Nothing ever goes right for Lindsey, no matter how well-intentioned her goals are. By the time she has a breakdown in the school bathroom upon seeing the school bully get an award for her art, let alone what happens AFTER, you feel horrible for this poor kid.

[[caption-width-right:258:Kailey on the American Girl site.]]
* CapitalismIsBad: Kailey and Tess are at first excited about the prospect of a new mall in their town... until they find out that the mall will destroy the local ecosystem.

* NatureLover: Both Kailey and her mother are fascinated by Marine Biology; Kailey spends a lot of her time on the beach inspecting the tide pools.

* ToylineExclusiveCharacter: Kailey was given a golden retriever dog, Sandy, in her small collection. This was strange, considering she did not have a pet in the books; meanwhile, the last Girl of the Year, Lindsey, had a plot-important dog who got ''no'' plushie.

[[caption-width-right:280:Marisol and Rascal on Marisol's book cover.]]

* DecemberDecemberRomance: Marisol's neighbor, Roberto Mendoza, is sixty years old, and decides to marry one of the women from his local senior centor. This manages to free up his caretaker daughter Gloria to teach dance in Marisol's new neighborhood.

* TroubledProduction: Marisol's book was criticized for a moment in which her parents explain they are moving because the neighborhood is dangerous and hard for kids to play in. Residents of the area protested, seeing this as a negative and inaccurate portrayal of their neighborhood. American Girl responded as such:

[[caption-width-right:280:Jess McConnell on the American Girl site.]]

* BraidsOfAction: Jess's doll comes with her hair in braids, as do most of her illustrations.

* CoolBigSis: Jess's sister's letter is very sweet and heartfelt.

* HomeschooledKids: Jess is homeschooled during her trip to Belieze, though she checks in with a teacher by emailing her assignments.

* PetBabyWildAnimal: Jess temporarily helps raise a parrot while in Belieze.

[[caption-width-right:283:Nicki and Sprocket on Nicki's book cover.]]
* AllDogsArePurebred: Somewhat averted. Sprocket is said to be a mixed-breed dog, however he has the appearance of a purebred Bernese Mountain Dog.

* AlphaBitch: Heather.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The second book ends with Nicki learning to let Sprocket go and do what he was trained to do, even though she will miss him.]]
* BrokenAce: Because of the fact she does everything for everyone.

* CopeByPretending: Nicki tries this for a little while. It doesn't work well.

* ExtremeDoormat: At the beginning of the series.

* LongLastLook: [[spoiler:When Nicki sees Sprocket for the last time.]]
* NearAndDearBabyNaming: Nicki's mother asks her to name her [[spoiler:baby sisters,]] and she [[spoiler:names them after her best friends, Becca and Kris.]]

* PreciousPuppy: Sprocket brings Nicki hope, fun, and a love she's never felt before. Too bad he'll inevitably have to leave...
* RichBitch: Heather.

* SelectiveObliviousness: In ''Thanks to Nicki,'' Nicki's mother talks very happily about how well Sprocket's training went and how they should train another dog... while Nicki and Adam are both completely depressed right in front of her.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Only a few years before Nicki's debut, Canadian doll brand Maplelea debuted Taryn Brady, an Appalachian brunette girl with a Bernese Mountain Dog and an interest in art and nature. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the distance between characters means target audience children didn't exist during Nicki's release. Funnily enough, fifteen years later Nicki would get her own suspiciously similar substitute in Corinne, and her name was reused for Historical character Nicki Hoffman.
* TearJerker: The entire second book, basically.

* TrainingThePet: She has to train Sprocket to be a service dog as a favor to her mother.

[[caption-width-right:237:Mia on the American Girl site.]]
* AlphaBitch: Vanessa Knowles.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Between the first and second books.
* CoolTeacher: Mia's new coach, Emma Schubert.

* FieryRedhead: Mia has bright red hair.

* LonelyRichKid: Vanessa Knowles.

* RaceLift: Early prototype images of Mia show she was originally supposed to be Indian-American. By her final release, she was changed to a white ginger.

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler: In the second book.]]

* WorkingClassHero: Mia and her family are quite poor.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Chrissa for being the new girl, and Gwen for being poor.
* AlphaBitch: Tara.

* BullyMagnet: Poor Gwen.
* BullyTurnedBuddy: Moreso in the film than in the books, but this happens to all of the Mean Bees.
* CoolOldLady: Chrissa is very close with her Nana.
* {{Cyberbullying}}: As cyberbullying was just starting to become a problem in this time period, Chrissa's entire second book is focused on it.

* EccentricArtist: Chrissa's teacher.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Gwen's a violinist.

* GirlPosse: The Mean Bees.
* HomeworkSlave: Implied in the film, as Sonali has to swiftly leave Chrissa's house to help Tara with homework.

* LiveActionAdaptation: ''An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong.''

* ReformedBully: Sonali first, and then Tara and Jadyn.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The three actresses who played the dolls in the film were Creator/SammiHanratty, Creator/KaitlynDever, and Creator/ArielaBarer.
* StreetUrchin: Gwen lives in a homeless shelter with her mother.
* StrugglingSingleMother: In the books, because Gwen's dad abandoned them. In the film, because he died.

* TraumaticHaircut: For Gwen.
* TroubledProduction: There was a ''huge'' hullaballoo over Gwen being a homeless character... represented by a $100 doll, with no proceeds going towards homeless charities. Oops.

[[caption-width-right:259:Lanie on the American Girl site.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Emily to Lanie.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Emily will only eat pizza... so everyone has to make every food they make into some kind of pizza-shape.

* CoolUncle: Aunt Hannah to Lanie.

* DumbBlonde: Completely and intentionally subverted, with Lanie being a bookish and scientific blonde.

* GreenAesop: Lanie's books were made to encourage conservation efforts among the target audience.
* GreenMeansNatural: Lanie's "meet outfit" is a green dress with blue accents.

* OutdoorsyGal: To Lanie's chagrin, she's the only one in her family.

* ScienceHero: Lanie and her Aunt Hannah.
* Tomboy: Lanie is pretty much the most tomboyish Girl of the Year that was released in the 2010s, due to her energetic and outgoing personality, not minding getting her hands dirty, and her dream of being a scientist.

[[caption-width-right:350:A promotional image of Kanani.]]

* CanineCompanion: To the point where Kanani's dog came with her basic accessories.

* FamilyOfChoice: Kanani considers everyone in her town to be her family.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Kanani has the longest hair of any American Girl doll.
* MultiEthnicName: Her name reflects bother her Hawai'ian and Japanese heritage.
* NewFriendEnvy: In the second book, when Kanani's best friend finds someone to surf with.
* OceanAwe: When Kanani shows Rachel around the islands.

* SecretDiary: It turns out that Kanani and Rachel's grandmother gave them both identical diaries, which results in Kanani accidentally reading Rachel's.

* SwitchingPOV: This is the only Contemporary character book that uses third person instead of first.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Kanani's meet outfit features a long, flowing blue dress.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: Lowkey, as American Girl clearly doesn't want their main doll to be a jerk, but the movie makes [=McKenna=] much more prideful in herself and her achievements. In the book, her injury was an accident; in the film, it was due to her overestimating herself.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: In canon, [=McKenna=] is only said to have issues with her reading comprehension. Many people in the fandom believe she may have dyslexia.
* DreamCrushingHandicap: Josie intially thinks that her paralysis will prevent her from becoming a horse rider. She discovers differently in the second book.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: [=McKenna's=] tutor, Josie, serves as somewhat of a downplayment of this trope. While she is seen having her own interests and personality, her main role in the story is to help [=McKenna=] overcome her own ableism.

* LiveActionAdaptation: The second Girl of the Year to get her own TV movie, following Chrissa.
* PassionateSportsGirl: For Gymnastics. She describes it as her whole life.

* RaceLift: Toulane is played by filipino actress Ysa Penarejo, while she has no stated ethnicity in the books but is illustrated as white.
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler: In the second book.]]

[[caption-width-right:338:Saige and Picasso on the first book cover.]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the film, Dylan is a bit more malicious in trying to get Tessa's attention away from Saige. In the book, it seems to be a simple misunderstanding.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Saige is even more of a horse girl than Nicki; while Nicki's horses were rather incidental to the plot, Saige is constantly at her grandmother's farm learning how to train horses, paints the horses for inspiration, and [[spoiler:gets her own horse for her birthday]].

* CoolOldLady: Saige is extremely close with her grandmother, who is an artist who raises horses and rescues kittens.
* CuttingCorners: Saige is distraught that she will have to go a year without art class, due to the school not being able to afford a permanent art teacher.

[[caption-width-right:350:Isabelle in ''Designs by Isabelle.'']]
* AdaptedOut: One of her best friends, Gabriel the aspiring Magician, is absent in the film.
* BalletEpisode: Isabelle's books are way more focused on Ballet than Marisol's, which were focused on Ballet Folklorico.
* ChoreographyPorn: Most of the books feature heavy descriptions of Isabelle's dance practices and performances.
* CoolBigSis: Jade.

* ICantDance: Isabelle is much less of a natural dancer than her sister, Jade. In fact, in promotional material for the film adaptation, most of what her parents talked about was how much worse she was than Jade. Yikes.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Isabelle's bully, Renata, is secretly jealous of her for having a close family, while Renata's parents neglect her.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: In the third book, when Isabelle's troupe performs for a children's hospital. Isabelle finds inspiration to dance better in the little girl in the wheelchair who is about to get surgery so she can "dance like you."

* LonelyRichKid: Renata.
* MonochromeCasting: In the books, the only mentioned black character in the Washington DC setting is Gabriel. In the film, it's only Renata.

* PetsAsAPresent: Her kitten is stated to be a gift for her mother.

* RoseHairedSweetie: Bright and cheerful Isabelle is the first American Girl doll to have unnatural hair colors, with pink removable highlights.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Isabelle has this BIG TIME with her prodige older sister, especially after [[spoiler:Jade is cast as Clara in their school's ''Nutcracker'' production]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Marisol Luna, who was also a ballet dancer. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as Iabelle was eleven years after Marisol (the target audience would be toddlers at best) and Isabelle actually focuses more on ballet, while Marisol cares more about folklorico dance and is just starting in ballet.

* TroubledProduction: Isabelle receieved some backlash upon release due to the fact she lived in Washington DC, a place with an incredibly diverse population and a large Black population, with an author known for writing Black character books--but was a white blonde doll and the next in a series of white Girls of the Year. She didn't sell as well as expected; her doll was available at overstock benefit sales for multiple ''years'' following her release.

[[caption-width-right:350:Grace on her first book cover.]]
* AloofBigBrother: Grace's brother, Josh.

* ClashingCousins: Technically step-cousins, but Sylvie is at first incredibly standoffish towards Grace.
* GayParee: Grace has a great time in the beautiful Paris... focusing mainly on the bistros, cafés, and Eiffel Tower imagery.

* LanguageFluencyDenial: Sylvie pretends to not speak English to avoid having to talk to Grace. This rouse falls apart the second Grace mentions it to Sylvie's parents.

* RaceLift: Grace doesn't have a stated ethnicity in the book, but is illustrated as white, and appears to be white in her doll form. In the film, she was played by Creator/OliviaRodrigo, making her filipino.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Grace was played by then newcomer Creator/OliviaRodrigo in her film adaptation. Rodrigo would later become a famous singer/songwriter, with her own page of awards and nominations listed on Wikipedia. As of 2022, she still has her Grace doll (as well as a Maritza Ochoa), which she posted pictures of when she visited the American Girl store in New York.
* SavingTheOrphanage: Grace has to help her grandparents earn money for a new oven, or else they will lose their bakery.

[[caption-width-right:350:Lea on her first book cover.]]

* AdaptedOut: Camila, despite featuring heavily in Lea's books, is mysteriously absent in the film, when Lea is in her area and could use some serious help.
* AdaptationalBadass: Lea does some pretty badass things in her book, but none of it compares to the film, with her determined trek through the jungle to rescue her brother including her own makeshift raft, trapping and threatening a poacher, and action-movie attempts to take down a smuggling ring.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the books, Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee, Paula, at first. She is also more bossy in the movie, but she eventually gets along more with Paula in their big adventure in the Amazon.

* GibberishOfLove: Zac, when he sees Paloma.

* MightyWhitey: In the movie, [[spoiler:We find out that Ama visited an uncontacted native tribe and gave them important medical care that they wouldn't have had otherwise.]]
* NativeGuide: Aki in the film.

* SequelEscalation: Lea's books are quite adventurous, but rather lighthearted, with Lea learning how to swim, navigate the jungle, raise animals, and communicate with her friends. The ''movie'' features her having to rescue her kidnapped brother from an animal-smuggling ring.

* SpidersAreScary: There's a moment in the movie where Lea and Paula both scream and run away from a spider they see on a branch.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lea herself for starters; she is very similar to Jess [=McConnell=] from 2006, with her travel to a South American country starting with "B", finding a sporty best friend who lives there, struggling to prove that they're grown-up despite being the baby of the family, raising and releasing a baby animal native to the region, being inspired by traveler family members, etc. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as Jess was ten years ago, long enough for a target age child to have little to no memory of her release.
** Additionally, there's Paloma. Zac has a huge crush on Camila's cousin, Paloma the scuba instructor, in the books. In the film, he has a girlfriend named Paula.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lea is absolutely terrified of the ocean, and of swimming in general. Unfortunately, they are practically ''living'' on the beach during their trip to Brazil, with Lea's new best friend being a passionate swimmer with a scuba-diving instructor for a cousin.

[[caption-width-right:350:Gabriela on her first book cover.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Blaire on her first book cover.]]

* OverallsAndGingham: Wears overalls for farm work.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Blaire has trouble getting off her tablet and living in the moment.

* WeddingFinale: In the first book.

[[caption-width-right:350:Joss on her first book cover.]]

* BigBrotherBully: Dylan, to an extent.
* BigBrotherMentor: The oldest Kendrick child, Liam.

* FemaleMisogynist: Implied with Joss at the beginning of her character arc, as she finds the cheer squad to be too girly for her. She (and her best friend, fellow tomboy Sofia) later learn to respect and love the cheer squad.
* ForgotTheDisability: Unfortunately happens to Joss often, as Sofia often forgets she's deaf and needs to lip-read on the beach.

* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Sofia becomes incredibly insecure after Joss joins the cheerleader squad and spends time with other people.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Joss at first finds the cheerleaders to be boring and "too girly." After joining the squad she realizes how hard they work, how nice the team is, and how much she enjoys the sport.

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler: The cheer squad in the second book.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Joss is active and a PassionateSportsGirl who has a passion for surfing while her friend from cheerleading, Brooklyn, is a cheerful cheerleader.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Joss is usually very sporty and loves to surfboard, and enjoys getting dolled up in sparkles and pink for cheerleading.
* TropeyComeHome: Murph runs away during a thunderstorm, only for Joss to find her at the beach.

[[caption-width-right:350:Kira on her first book cover.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kira not only has to return to the United States, but the Wildlife Sanctuary burns before she can leave.]]
* ButNotTooGay: Subverted, as Kira's aunts actually show more affection than many straight couples in American Girl books.

* GreenAesop: Very unsubtley, due to the Sanctuary being in danger of the recent Australian forest fires.
* HighKoalatyCuteness: Definitely Bean.
* HomeschooledKids: Alexis states she does online school while she lives at the reserve. Kira begs her mom to let her do this, too, and live permanently in Australia. Her mom refuses, as she herself is a teacher and thinks Kira should be in public school.
* HonestyAesop: [[spoiler:In the second book, as Kira finds out that Evie isn't being honest about the rare bird on site.]]
* HopeSproutsEternal: [[spoiler:At the end of the second book, where Kira and Alexis find hope within the ruins of the Sanctuary.]]
* {{Infodump}}: Kira drops a lot of information to the boy next to her on the plane until she sees her mom signal her to shut up.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: She was, for some reason, included in a lot of ''World By Us'' promos and stopmotions, despite never appearing in their books and being on another ''continent'' during their stories' timeline. Even if she was in America, she lives in Michigan while they live in Washington DC.

* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: While Kira's merchandise mainly focuses on her koala, the kangaroo is also sold, and featured prominently in the second book.

* LateComingOut: It's mentioned that Kira's great-aunts have only recently gotten married, due to Australia's homosexuality laws.
* NervousWreck: Kira.

[[caption-width-right:350:Gwynn, Corinne and their dog, Flurry, on Corinne's book cover.]]

Kavi Sharma is an Indian-American girl living in New Jersey who loves to dance and participate in performing arts at school; she enjoys attending musicals in nearby [[BigAppleSauce New York City]], with one of her favorite being ''Theatre/Wicked''--which she gets to see as a gift for her twelfth birthday. But her academic performance is being affected by her inability to focus on her schoolwork, resulting in lowered grades and risks of not being able to perform if she can't get her grades up.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Only a few years before Nicki's debut, Canadian doll brand Maplelea debuted Taryn Brady, an Appalachian brunette girl with a Bernese Mountain Dog and an interest in art and nature. Funnily enough, fifteen years later Nicki would get her own suspiciously similar substitute in Corinne, and her name reused for Nicki Hoffman.

* LiveActionAdaptation: ''An American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky.'' Confusing, because that is also the name of the second book.
* NewFriendEnvy: Saige becomes insecure after her best friend, Tess, makes a friend at music camp.

* PonyTale: Saige's second book focuses a lot on her training horses.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Saige is a brunette horse girl with an interest in art, extreme social anxiety, and a black-and-white dog... very similar to 2007's Nicki Fleming.
* WhiteStallion: Saige's horses.

* DanceSensation: In the film.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Marisol (2005).

* TroubledProduction: Isabelle receieved some backlash upon release due to the fact she lived in Washington DC, a place with an incredibly diverse population, and yet was a white blonde doll, in a long line of white blonde dolls. She also apparently didn't sell well, as her doll was available at overstock benefit sales for ''years'' following her release.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lea herself for starters; she is very similar to Jess [=McConnell=] (2006), with her travel to a South American country starting with "B", finding a sporty best friend who lives there, struggling to prove that they're grown-up despite being the baby of the family, raising and releasing a baby animal native to the region, being inspired by traveler family members, etc.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Isabelle (2014) and Marisol (2005).
* ToylineExclusiveCharacter: Not exactly a character, but Gabriela was promoted with exclusively tap dance outfits and props. The books barely mention tap dancing, with most of her focus being on ballet.

* PetBabyWildAnimal: All of the animals in Kira's sanctuary are sold in her collection as pet plushies. In the stories, her aunts make sure that she knows that no matter how cute and nice they are, they are still wild animals.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Kira is very similar to both Jess McConnell and Lea Clark, due to their love for animals and traveling. All three of them literally traveled out of America. Jess traveled to Belize, Lea traveled to Brazil, and Kira traveled to Australia. Kira also has the same traveling thing in common with Grace Thomas, who traveled to Paris.
* TroubledProduction: Kira receieved a bit of controversy due to being one in ''many'' blonde-haired white girls. In fact, the custom doll used for Alexis in the promotional photos got a lot more attention and praise from long-time collectors.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Gwynn.
* AgeLift: In the books, Corinne is ten while Gwynn is seven. In the film adaptation, their actors were thirteen and ten and their ages are adjusted accordingly.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: While Gwynn and Corinne mostly get alone perfectly well, Gwynn's childishness begins to grate on Corinne in the second book.
* AsiansEatPets: Deliberately subverted. When they overhear white men joking about their Chinese-Restaurant-owning mother cooking their dog, Gwynn is distraught, and their mother angrily races out to confront the racists.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Gwynn, [[spoiler:until her mother has a new baby.]]
* BlendedFamilyDrama: Corinne has a lot of trouble adjusting to her parents' divorce and mother's remarriage.

* BirthdayBuddies: Corinne and Kira were given the same birthday, September 21.

* CoolBigSis: Towards Gwynn.
* CopeByPretending: Corinne puts on an act of being happy but still poor to avoid arguing with Cassidy.

* GettingMyOwnRoomPlot: Subverted. Corinne wants her own room, but is unable to get one after [[spoiler:her mom becomes pregnant again]].
* GirlishPigtails: Gwynn's hair is always in two braids.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Even before adopting and training Flurry, Corinne was extremely interested in the Search-and-Rescue dogs.

* PsychicChildren: [[spoiler:Gwynn claims that she and Corinne have a connected "sister-brain"; while Corinne doesn't take this seriously, the narrative seemingly does. Gwynn is able to hear Corinne shout during her skating routine despite Corinne being in a loud crowd, and reacts accordingly. Gwynn is also the one who thinks of sending out Flurry to search for her lost sister, and says that she sent Corinne a message to not give up, which Corinne wonders about. This is amplified in the second book, where Gwynn is able to predict that Corinne and Cassidy encountered a mountain lion, despite neither of them telling anyone about that, and says she sent them a message to not give up when she felt that Corinne must be "really, really sad." Very soon after, she says that she and her mother played a game by listing purple things– the thing that gave Corinne hope during her journey was a purple columbine, which Corinne had introduced Gwynn to earlier in the book. All this together implies that Gwynn's "sister-brain" may indeed be a Thing. The first chapter's ShoutOut to ''{{Literature/Matilda}}'' may also be implying this.]]
* PsychicLink: In a rare non-twin version of TwinTelepathy, Gwynn claims that she and Corinne have a "sister-brain" that links their thoughts and feelings. Everyone finds this to be quite amusing. However, it may not all be a joke.

* PurpleIsPowerful: Corinne finds inspiration in the purple columbine she sees growing in the woods. [[spoiler:With Gwynn's implied psychicness, her purple color scheme also adds to this.]]

** Both girls idolize Chinese-American skiier Eileen Gu, and hang a signed poster of her in their room.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Corinne is the second Girl of the Year to be an eldest sister skiier from Colorado dealing with the training of a bouncy puppy and birth of a new sibling with some anxiety issues. Unlike Nicki, Corinne is from the rich class of Colorado, has her book more focused on her sisterhood with Gwynn, and focuses more on skiing than Nicki's horse-riding.

* YoungestChildWins: Gwynn is always bright and happy to contrast Corinne's anxiety, and is easy to make friends, as well as apparently a prodigy at ice skating. [[spoiler:This is somewhat subverted when Gwynn becomes the middle child in the second book.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the books, Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee, Paloma, at first. She is also more bossy in the movie, but she eventually gets along more with Paloma in their big adventure in the Amazon.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the movie, Lea has a bad attitude towards Paloma at first, but she soon learns how to get along with her on their mission to find Zac in the Amazon, even when she makes a new friend.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the books, Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee, Paula, at first. She is also more bossy in the movie, but she eventually gets along more with Paula in their big adventure in the Amazon.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the books, Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee, and likes to act like she's the boss.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the books,Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee.

* AdaptionalJerkass: In the books,Lea is very daring, adventurous, and caring, while in the movie, she is more irritable and rude towards Zac's fiancee.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Her brother Rishi.
* CanineCompanion: Her Maxi Cockapoo, Scamper.
* DancingWithMyself: Kavi does this often.
* DiagnosisOfGod: In Kavi's journal, she does not explicitly refer to herself as someone with ADHD, though she describes the symptoms perfectly. However, the amount of specifically ADHD specialists on her advisory board show this to have been intentional, meaning she has ADHD in all but text. Her book is set to release in March, where she could possibly get a DelayedDiagnosis.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: Kavi is sung both the English and Hindi traditional birthday song in her first chapter.
* TheHerosBirthday: Following this trope to a T, Kavi's first book opens on her twelfth birthday.
* ShoutOut: Kavi is inspired to sign up for her school's revue after seeing a performance of ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}.'' On the AG site, her desk has a poster for this show as well as ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera, {{Theatre/Hamilton}}'' and ''Theatre/MammaMia.''

!Girls Of The Year
[[folder: Lindsey (2001)]]

[[folder: Kailey (2003)]]

[[folder: Marisol (2005)]]

[[folder: Jess (2006)]]

[[folder: Nicki (2007)]]

[[folder: Mia (2008)]]

[[folder: Chrissa (2009)]]

[[folder: Lanie (2010)]]

[[folder: Kanani (2011)]]

[[folder: [=McKenna=] (2012)]]

[[folder: Saige (2013)]]

[[folder: Isabelle (2014)]]

[[folder: Grace (2015)]]

[[folder: Lea (2016)]]

[[folder: Gabriela (2017)]]

[[folder: Luciana (2018)]]

[[folder: Blaire (2019)]]

[[folder: Joss (2020)]]

[[folder: Kira (2021)]]

[[folder: Corinne and Gwynn (2022)]]
!!Corinne Tan (with her sister, Gwynn Tan)

* [[Analysis/PeopleOfHairColor The East Asian Hair Streak]]: A Chinese girl with bright blue highlights.

[[folder: Kavi (2023)]]