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* {{Tomboy}}: Much more so than her twin Isabel. She prefers flannel, jeans, and sneakers, her favorite color is purple and other dark colors, and she prefers skateboarding over dancing. Nicki actively avoids being roped into playing Spice Girls with Isabel and her friends now (they often had her be Sporty Spice) and despises their frequent girlish squealing, and she isn't the same kind of fashionable like they are. By the events of hteir book, she's ducking out when Isabel's friends come over to avoid being pressured into being the fifth Spice Girl.

* GirlPosse: Deconstructed. Isabel and her friends Quinn, Tori, and Tiffany start out as very close friends and like to dance together to Spice Girls music (and try to get Nicki in as the fifth member like whne she was younger, which she actively avoids). However AlphaBitch Cammy comes in--on Quinn's asking--to help improve their dancing performance and turns the other three against Isabel, with the three going so far as to kick her out of the performance group and exclude her from a study group in class where they giggle and share candy without her, leaving her friendless. When they all reconnect and apologize to each other for what they did (as Isabel's also [[HeelRealization realized she was in the wrong as well]] by expecting everyone to go along with her vision), they invite her to be part of their dance performance at Coffeegarden, but she declines--she's not part of their group anymore and has made new friends, and and realizes it's okay, even if she doesn't know how close they'll all be anymore.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Isabel is the more girly twin who loves pop music, pink, the Powerpuff Girls, and fashion. She gets the tomboy aspect when she starts to play tennis with her new friend Olivia.

* TwinTelepathy: Isabel insists that her and Nicki know what each other are thinking and how they feel, calling it "twintuition". Nicki is more skeptical of the idea, especially as Isabel more thinks it means they should do everything together and Nicki should agree to her plans and ideas withou tbeing consulted.

* BitCharacter: Tori and Tiffany, the other two members of Isabel's group of friends, don't stand out as much as Quinn (or AlphaBitch Cammy). Tori has red hair and always plays Ginger Spice, and Tiffany--the black girl--always plays Scary. Outside of a few scenes, they're mostly background

* DIYDisaster: Decides to cheer herself up after being called babyish by completely redoing her and Nicki's room in pink, which works--until her more tomboyish sister Nicki sees what was done without her input and angrily tells Isabel she wasn't even considered in the makeover. Isabel makes it up later by doing a proper makeover that incorporates both their interests, rather than just to impress others.

!! As a Pair

* AmbiguouslyJewish: They are Jewish on their father's side and as part of an interfaith family, celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah. However, the only representation in their collection is that they got their pets and journals on the last day of Hannukkah. This was added in by the authors of their books, who were raised interfaith and asked to have the characters be the same.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Isabel and Nicki enjoy playing on the American Girl website and Isabel has an American Girl Magazine subscription. Nicki collects Grin Pins, and Isabel owns a Miss AG Bear. During the new year's celebration, they each wear an outfit from the (then-called) American Girl Today collection--the Year 2000 Outfit and Red Jumper Outfit--which were made aviliable in [[OfficialCosplayGear children's sizes]]. These outfits along with a t-shirt based on a late 1990s version were released for their collection in Fall 2023. Nicki also mentions reading ''Addy Learns a Lesson'' in her journal.
* LimitedWardrobe: The collection was only launched with two extra outfits for each character: their pajamas and their "sport" outfits--skateboarding for Nicki and tennis for Isabel. Nicki's skateboarding outfit can be seen as a day-to-day set if the skating gear isn't included (as it's overalls, a t-shirt, and a puffy vest), but Isabel didn't have anything else to wear ''but'' her meet set until the fall 2023 release that added the Year 2000 outfit, which is still more of a fancy dress than day-to-day wear. Averted in the books as other clothes have been illustrated, including the girls wearing fancy outfits to the [[spoiler:second]] New Year's Eve Millenial Party based on then-availiable outfits from the modern collection that came in children's sizes, the ones later added to their collection. A lot of collectors use the late 90s modern clothing they may have had as children to expand their wardrobe.

* MenLikeDogsWomenLikeCats: The more feminine Isabel loves cats and the more tomboyish Nicki is a dog lover.
* MillenniumBug: A plot point in the series; Nicki is terrified the Y2K bug will end the world even though her mother, a coder, is working hard on helping to prevent it.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Evoked quite a lot in the advertisements; Isabel is a pink, preppy, extroverted girl, while Nicki is a grunge, quiet, introverted girl.

* SimultaneousArcs: While their first book features both [=POVs=], the dolls instead come with separate journals "written" by them, taking place between the last day of Hanukkah until New Year's Day 2000.
* ThisIsMySide: After Isabel's bad makeover of the room, Nicki puts tape down the center of the room in frustration. Isabel complains that her side of the room doesn't have the door. Nicki is so upset she still doesn't care.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Nicki's the skateboarding tomboy and Isabel's the fashionable girly girl.
* TotallyRadical: As part of the nineties marketing, despite technically being more like [=Y2K=] dolls.

* TwinTelepathy: Isabel insists that her and Nicki know what each other are thinking. Nicki seems more skeptical of the idea of "twintuition", especially as Isabel more thinks it means they should do everything together and Nicki should agree to her plans.
* YouGoGirl: Incredibly hyped as part of their marketing. Isabel and Nicki both set "Girl Power" goals, and Nicki tries to prove that girls can skateboard, too. Isabel is into the Music/SpiceGirls and thinks they embody girl power as well. The last section of their personal journals has a school essay from each girl listing their top ten "girl power" events of the 1990s.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: The dolls' painted eyelashes (which started in 2017 with Nanea's release and became standard to all dolls starting in 2022) and fashion styles can make them look more like teenagers than nine-year-olds of the time period. Isabel's outfit is closer to something a teenager would wear as it's similar to Cher's from ''{{Film/Clueless}}.''

The girlier twin who likes pink, parties, and dancing. She is one inch taller.

* AlphaBitch: The new member of her friend group, Cammy, comes in to her group of friends and takes over. She immediately starts insulting Isabel, calling her a "baby" and turning her friends against her, insults Isabel and Nicki's interests, and calls her new friend Kat old acting for dressing in vintage things.

The shyer, more tomboyish twin. Nicki is six minutes older.

* BraidsOfAction: Wears two braids when skateboarding.

* CanineCompanion: With her new dog, Blossom.

* DaddysGirl: Implied; she's closer to her father.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: She doesn't like her middle name, Pearl, thinking it doesn't fit her tomboyish personality. [[spoiler:She later learns her father--who formerly was in a grunge band--chose it as a ShoutOut to Music/PearlJam and she embraces it after.]]
* GameBreakingInjury: She twists her ankle doing skateboarding tricks before the Y2K celebration, where she wanted to prove that girls could skate, too. It ultimately doesn't matter since [[spoiler:the whole celebration is canceled by the city]].

* IAmBecomingSong: Nicki is a songwriter who ends up giving her dad one of her songs to perform.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Nicki and her father are both into the grunge scene.
* NinetiesHair: Nicki's loose grunge style and dyed hair fit the nineties.
* NonconformistDyedHair: Has two bleached streaks. She later dyes the streaks purple (temporarily).
* ShoutOut: Nicki's favorite cartoon character is Blossom from the ''Powerpuff Girls.'' When she gets a dog as a pet, she names her Blossom.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While not as obvious as Saige, Nicki shares several similarities to the 2007 Girl of the Year Nicki Fleming. They both have the same name (down to the spelling) brown hair, blue eyes, anxiety and a love for dogs. They're also both the oldest siblings in their family; however, Nicki Fleming has a brother and twin younger sisters, while Nicki Hoffman is the oldest of two by only six minutes. Also Nicki Fleming was a Girl of the Year and her collection hasn't been available since 2005.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Nicki is the more tomboyish twin with a love of skateboarding and dislikes of almost all of the "girly" stuff that Isabel likes. However, Nicki's favorite color is purple, which can be considered a more feminine color, and she watches the ''Powerpuff Girls.'' She also lets Isabel dye her streaks purple for a special occasion.
* TomboyishBaseballCap: Nicki is always seen wearing her hat backwards; it was the fashion of the 1990s when people wore baseball caps regardless of their interest in the sport or not.
* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: Nicki doesn't like being roped into playing Spice Girls with Isabel and her friends (they often make her play Sporty Spice) or their frequent squealing, and she isn't the same kind of fashionable like they are.

* {{Tomboy}}: Doesn't like pink or ruffles, and cares little for baking, dusting, flouncy dresses, and dance class.

* UptownGirl: Kit's mother came from wealth, but came down in class when she married Jack who came from rural Appalachia. (Her uncle and only living relative, Hendrick, constantly says that her mother and his sister would have a broken heart to see her living as "poor" as she does.)
* WhamLine: When Kit goes to the soup kitchen and serves bread to a man [[spoiler:who turns out to be her father]].
* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: Kit is much more of a tomboy than other historical characters, including her best friend Ruthie. She loves baseball, Robin Hood stories as opposed to fairy tales, and even goes by Kit because her real name, Margaret Mildred, is too "flouncy" for her. When she first hears about Sterling coming to stay (without knowing he's DelicateAndSickly), she deliberately makes sure to have her baseball glove and the copy of Robin Hood with her when he arrives so she doesn't get mistaken for being the "boring" kind of girl. She also dislikes the color pink and fancy, flouncy, girly things. She wears various dresses as she's expected to given the 1930s time period when pants were not acceptable public wear (especially given her mother) and has several feminine outfits in the movie and her collection--in part due to her mother's ideas of [[WantedAGenderConformingChild how she should dress as a girl]], but Kit resists as much as she can for her era.
* YouthfulFreckles: The first character to have freckles; they're across her nose and cheeks.

* ChildishOlderSibling: The oldest of three [[spoiler:later four]] and the most impulsive and rebellious. e.g. In ''Felicity's New Sister'' she wants to go to the plantation because the help there will mean she can spend time with Penny rather than taking care of her mother or siblings. But she steps up when the carriage breaks and knows she has to be brave to comfort Nan and William.

* FieryRedhead: Feisty, headstrong, patriotic and cheerful--while impatient and foolharty when she shouldn't be.

* SentimentalSacrifice: Her beloved skiff, while her father is still missing, to prevent the British from invading. Also nearly happens to her beloved shipyard.

** Her Tía Dolores comes up from Mexico City after living there ten years, and immediately endears herself to the whole family.
** Her Tía Magdalena is a good-humored traditional healer and her aunt, who Josefina confides her desire to follow her in the healing arts.
** Josefina is an example herself, even while close in age to her nephews. The short stories show her having a close kinship with them; she and her oldest nephew Juan work together to find as many pinon nuts as possible, and in ''Again, Josefina!'' Antonio's delight in her piano playing helps her stick to practicing. the last centra series had her share her holiday candy with Antonio, who ate his too fast (with this being the first Three Kings Day he's old enough to truly get).
** Tia Dolores functions as an enlivening, active, positive woman who encourages her nieces to take some risks and grow as people, even encouraging them to learn how to read and write.
** Tía Magdalena, Josefina's paternal aunt, is a healer is single and who has lived by herself. She dispenses wisdom and comfort, encouraging Josefina to do work that stands apart from that of other girls and learn how to be a healer herself. She even takes the time to joke with Josefina about how stubborn Josefina's father was in his youth.
* CoolOldLady:

* DownOnTheFarm: Down on the Rancho--she and her family live far from the nearest city, Santa Fe.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Josefina and her sisters all have the first name "Maria"--as does her aunt, grandmother, and likely her late mother. [[JustifiedTrope Accurate]] as historically in Catholic families, girls were named Mary or a variation such as Maria, with their middle names being the names they were referred to by.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Josefina's sister Francisca. ''Josefina Saves the Day'' has Patrick O'Toole, an Americano guest of Josefina's grandfather who is fluent in Spanish and an all-around Nice Guy, who forgets to say "Gracias" when Francisca serves drinks. Josefina thinks that Francisca's looks provoke that reaction often, even in men who speak perfect Spanish.

* NiceGirl: Incredibly sweet and loving.

* BoyishShortHair: Hair cut into a bob.
* TheBully: Classmate Roger.

* TomboyishNickame: Kit. Her first name is Margaret, and being called "Kit" means avoiding her flouncy first name.

* TomboyishName: Kit, which is to avoid her flouncy first name of Margaret.

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* TomboyishNickame: Kit, which is to avoid her flouncy first name of Margaret.

* LimitedWardrobe: Both InUniverse and as a collection. Unlike characters released before her (who had [[UnlimitedWardrobe an outfit released for every book]] even if it wasn't logically plausible for their era, pajamas, and additional clothing) Kaya, being from a culture and time where the Nimiipuutímt didn't have huge wardrobes. In her stories, she's only ever in her daily deerskin dress with some accessories added, and once seen in her fancier dress when she's [[spoiler:considered mature enough to dig and harvest with the women]]. In the collection, she initially only had her everyday deerskin meet dress and a fancier adorned deerskin dress which was in the same style but with more decoration. However, she was also given many several modern pan-Native outfits such as a jingle dress, and later has one more outfit added to her set, but this is much less than rural Kirsten, who has at least eight outfits.

* LimitedWardrobe: Both InUniverse and as a collection. Unlike characters released before her (who had an outfit released for every book even if it wasn't logically plausible for their era, pajamas, and additional clothing) Kaya, being from a culture and time where the Nimiipuutímt didn't have huge wardrobes. In her stories, she's only ever in her daily deerskin dress with some accessories added, and once seen in her fancier dress when she's [[spoiler:considered mature enough to dig and harvest with the women]]. In the collection, she initially only had her everyday deerskin meet dress and a fancier adorned deerskin dress which was in the same style but with more decoration. However, she was also given many several modern pan-Native outfits such as a jingle dress, and later has one more outfit added to her set, but this is much less than rural Kirsten, who has at least eight outfits.

* SeventiesHair: After ''Happy New Year, Julie,'' she has her long hair cut in a pageboy that mimics [[https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=nancy%20drew%201974&rs=typed&term_meta=nancy%7Ctyped&term_meta=drew%7Ctyped&term_meta=1974%7Ctyped Nancy Drew]].

* ChekhovsClassroom: Ivy complains at the beginning of her book about having to go to Chinese School every weekend and learn Cantonese. Then, later in the book, when she finds a woman has lost her child in Chinatown, and they can only speak Cantonese, she is able to translate for her and help the family reunite.
* CompanionCube: Her beloved doll.
* TheDragAlong: Ivy felt like this in ''Meet Julie'', when Julie was doing a petition to join the boys' basketball team and she wanted Ivy to come with her.

* FamilyHonor: Ivy seems to have a deep connection to her Chinese heritage, although Chinese school is somewhat boring to her and she doesn't like to eat Chinese food every single day.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Courtney is excited to use a rare computer at her Dad's office; they have them at school, but the ones there are more advanced.

* ValleyGirl: She lives in a suburb in Orange Valley (which is an expy of the San Fernando Valley), likes going to the mall and its arcade, enjoys fashion, and uses appropriate-era slang. However, she is more intelligent and ambitious than the usual trope. Her stepsister Tina embodies it more.

They are the second paired historical release, after Marie-Grace and Cécile, and were released in 2023. They are also the first characters to not be released with their meet book availiable; each instead has has a character-written journal, with their combined book releasing later in 2023.

* BlueIsHeroic: Will do anything for her friends and family.

%% * BlueIsHeroic: She's brave and heroic, and her [=BeForever=] dress is blue.

* BlueIsHeroic: Despite her favorite color being purple, her color scheme in marketing is mainly blue.

* YouGoGirl: Incredibly hyped as part of their marketing. Isabel and Nicki both set "Girl Power" goals, and Nicki tries to prove that girls can skateboard, too. Isabel is into the Music/SpiceGirls and thinks they embody girl power as well.

* GoodWithNumbers: Despite having no formal education at the start of the series, she can do math problems in her head in seconds. This is because she used to have to purchase food for her family, and had to be able to determine the cost of things they needed quickly and to get hte most for thier meager funds.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is shy, kind, sweet, and humble--but becomes frustrated during ''Happy Birthday, Molly!'' when Molly pushes down her ideas for thier party.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: They are Jewish on their father's side and as part of an interfaith family, celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah. However, the only representation in their collection is that they got thier pets and journals on the last day of Hannukkah. This was added in by the authors of their books, who were raised interfaith and asked to have the characters be the same.

* MadeASlave: After being kidnapped in a horse raid, Kaya and Speaking Rain are enslaved by their captures and forced to do work. Speaking Rain mostly tends a baby, since she is blind.

* MadeASlave: After being kidnapped in a horse raid, this happens to Kaya and Speaking Rain.

* MeaningfulRename: Her mentor Swan Circling [[spoiler:dies]] and gifts Kaya her saddle as well as her name for when she is ready for it. Kaya vows that in the future she will be worthy of her hero's name.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Brown Deer is constantly anxious about what Cut Cheek's aunt thinks of her, and believes that she isn't good enough to impress her.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: After Kaya's selfishness gets her and all the other children switched--with Whipwoman saying that a selfish magpie would have taken better care of her brothers than she did--they start calling her Magpie. To make Kaya feel better, her grandmother Aalah shares with her a story from her own childhood about being nicknamed Finger Cakes for stealing finger cakes from her big brother's shoulder bag. She adds that even in her old age, her friends still sometimes teasingly call her Finger Cakes.

* ShownTheirWork: Kaya is the only doll whose mold was designed with a closed mouth, because showing one's teeth is considered offensive to Nez Perce.

* TakeAThirdOption: When Kaya finds Speaking Rain again after [[spoiler:having to leave her behind in the enemy camp]], she's been adopted by White Braids, a member of another tribe whom Speaking Rain vows not to leave. After Kaya gets over being upset about her sister no longer being part of the family like before, she suggests that Speaking Rain spend part of the year with each family. It works.

* HorsebackHeroism: Learns to ride Penny in order to free her. When she later gains Penny back, she rides her in order to save Ben.

* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Accurate to the time period, as America was first revolting over British rule.
* KidHero: In several books, mainly when freeing Penny and saving Ben.

* MeaningfulName: Known as the Merriest Girl in Virigina, Felicity's first name means "happiness" and derives from the Latin word for "good luck." "Merriman" literally means "Merry man."

* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: Felicity works hard to earn Penny's trust, and soon becomes the only person who the horse will let ride her.

* TheParagon: Shown clearly in her first book when she frees an abused horse despite knowing that, if caught, she would be hanged. She later does anything to stand up for what she believes in, whether that be sneaking out at night, giving Ben a stern talking-to, or fighting to regain her friendship with Elizabeth.
* PetPositiveIdentification: She knows she's found Penny when the horse comes to her.
* PetsAsAPresent: Both her lamb Posey in her birthday book.

* RebelliousSpirit: She's free-spirited and rebellious for the time period.

* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: When she damages the guitar given to her by Grandfather, a former item of her later grandmother's (by taking it out to show off to Annabelle), her parents and grandfather say she's immature and that it might have been too early to gift it to her. [[spoiler:After she helps alert the town about the taking of gunpowder, it's returned to her with a new ribbon and her Grandfather says she's more mature than he thought.]]

* YouthfulFreckles: She's stated to have them in her books (her mother tries to fade them with elmon juice before her first gentlewoman's lesson); her doll, however, does not.

* The90s: While advertisements and promotional material emphasizes their ties to the era, the books are set three weeks before the start of the year 2000, making their story barely occuring in the 1990s.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Isabel and Nicki are Jewish through their father, and both are white.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Isabel and Nicki enjoy playing on the American Girl site and Isabel has an American Girl Magazine subscription. Nicki collects Grin Pins, and Isabel owns a Miss AG Bear. During the new year's celebration, they each wear an outfit from the (then-called) American Girl Today collection--the Year 2000 Outfit and Red Jumper Outfit--which were made aviliable in [[OfficialCosplayGear children's sizes]]. These outfits along with a t-shirt based on a late 1990s version were released in Fall 2023.
* LimitedWardrobe: The collection was only launched with two extra outfits for each character: their pajamas and their "sport" outfits--skateboarding for Nicki and tennis for Isabel. Nicki's skateboarding outfit can be seen as a day-to-day set, but Isabel didn't have anything else to wear but her meet set until the fall 2023 release that added the Year 2000 outfit. Averted in the books as other clothes have been illustrated including the girls wearing outfits to the [[spoiler:second]] New Year's Eve Millenial Party that are based on then-availiable outfits from the modern collection that came in children's sizes and were later added to their collection.

* NinetiesHair: Nicki's grunge style and dyed hair.

** Isabel is a hardcore fan of the {{Music/SpiceGirls}}, while Nicki loves {{Music/NoDoubt}} and Isabel's friends are fans of {{Music/NSync}}.

** Nicki mentions reading ''Addy Learns a Lesson'' in her journal.
* ShownTheirWork: The Seattle Year 2000 Millenial Celebration was in fact cancelled shortly before New Year's Eve; then-mayor Paul Schell canceled the celebration only a few days before, citing worries about possible terrorist acts occuring during the event (and in part blaming the 1999 Seattle WTO protests that had occurred in November).

* YouGoGirl: Incredibly hyped as part of their marketing. Isabel and Nicki both set "Girl Power" goals, and Nicki tries to prove that girls can skateboard, too. Isabel is into the Music/SpiceGirls and thinks they embody girl pwoer as well.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Nicki is the more tomboyish twin with a love of skateboarding and dislikes of almost all of the "girly" stuff that Isabel likes. However, Nicki's favorite color is purple, which can be considered a more feminine color, and she watches the ''Powerpuff Girls.'' She also lets Isabel dye her hair purple for a special occasion.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Her meet dress is blue.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Her first dress in America (inherited from her cousin Lisbeth) is a medium blue with a floral print; her summer dress is white with blue stripes.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Claudie wears a blue and green dress as her Meet Outfit, and is shy and girly.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Has blue checks on her green dress and is a sweetheart.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Caroline is a sailor who enjoys ice skating, fishing, and sailing, which makes her more tomboyish in comparison to her older cousin, Lydia Livingston, who is into fashion. Caroline is also tomboyish in comparison to her friend, Rhonda Hathaway, who is into hair styling, is not into ice skating and is just as feminine as Lydia.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Her favorite color is pink, and she enjoys baking and quilting. But as a child living in the rural area, she spends time in the forest fort, and exploring around her enviroment.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Molly is an energetic girl who enjoys camping and being outdoors. This is compared with Emily, who is more proper befitting her Britishness, enjoys tea parties, and is more calm-natured.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After Caroline Abbott retired in May 2015, Maryellen was the one to take her place four months later, and although Maryellen is growing up during the 1950s while Caroline grows up during the 1810s, they are both tomboys at heart due to being more active and energetic and having a strong love for activities that were considered "masculine" during both of their eras, like how Maryellen enjoys playing cowgirl and being in the science club instead of the Girls Scouts, while Caroline likes sailing, fishing, and ice skating. However, both characters do have girly sides for feminine outfits and a few feminine activities, like how Maryellen loves dressing up in poodle skirts, while Caroline loves dressing up in feminine dresses and is skilled at sewing.

* ReclusiveArtist: Gwen, who lives in Claudie's bording house but mostly spends her time holed up in her room. Claudie is told she doesn't like children.

* SavingTheOrphanage: Her first arc is focused on saving her boarding house from eviction.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Claudie wears a blue and white dress as her Meet Outfit, and is shy and girly.

* The90s: While advertisements and promotional material emphasizes their ties to the era, the books are set three weeks before the start of the year 2000, making them barely occuring in the 1990s.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Isabel and Nicki enjoy playing on the American Girl site and Isabel has an American Girl Magazine subscription. Nicki also collects Grin Pins, and Isabel owns a Miss AG Bear. During the new year's celebration, they wear outfits from the 1990s (then-called) American Girl Today collection which were made aviliable in [[OfficialCosplayGear children's sizes]].
* LimitedWardrobe: The collection was only launched with two extra outfits for each character: their pajamas and their "sport" outfits--skateboarding for Nicki and tennis for Isabel. Nicki's skateboarding outfit can be seen as a day-to-day set, but Isabel doesn't have anything else to wear but her meet set. Averted in the books as while other clothes haven't been illustrated, they're implied, including the girls wearing outfits to the [[spoiler:second]] New Year's Eve Millenial Party that are based on then-availiable outfits from the modern collection that came in children's sizes.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kaya’s adventurous and active Tomboy towards Speaking Rain’s more gentle and calm Girly Girl.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Caroline is a sailor who enjoys ice skating, fishing, and sailing, which makes her slightly tomboyish in comparison to her older cousin, Lydia Livingston, who is into fashion. Caroline is also tomboyish in comparison to her friend, Rhonda Hathaway, who is into hair styling, is not into ice skating and is just as feminine as Lydia.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's outspoken and adventurous--involing herself in sailing, not a common interest for girls of the era--but also loves embroidery and sewing and is skilled at them.

* GirlyGirl: She and Cecile are the girliest historicals, both with fancy dresses and feminine pursuits.

* GirlyGirl: She and Marie-Grace are the girliest historicals.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Samantha isn’t as prim and proper as her grandmother expects her to be, but she's definitely not a tomboy. She enjoys wearing dresses and bows, and she loves parties. However, she also enjoys tree climbing and riding in cars, and she dislikes specific clothes she is told to wear in order to look ladylike, such as long underwear.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Kit is more tomboyish in comparison to Ruthie, due to her love of baseball and newspaper writing and her dislikes of frilly fashion. However, in the end of ''Kit’s Surprise'', she finally accepts Ruthie’s old Christmas dress and wears it throughout Christmas Day.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Molly is an energetic girl who enjoys camping and has a more dark-toned wardrobe while Linda and Susan have lighter wardrobes and are just more feminine. Molly's tomboyish personality is compared at a more specific level with Emily, who is more proper, enjoys tea parties, and is more calm natured.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak:
** In ''Meet Molly'', she dresses up with Linda and Susan for Halloween.
** In ''Molly's Surprise'', she wears a pretty green dress for Christmas.
** In ''Happy Birthday, Molly!'', she has strong interests in learning about princesses from England, such as Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, and she dresses up as a princess with Emily during her birthday party she shares with her.
** In ''Changes for Molly'', she lets Linda and Susan help her curl her hair for her role as Miss Victory, which is a failure, until her mother helps her curl her hair right, and Molly is able to dress up as Miss Victory.
** In her movie, she shows Linda, Susan, and Emily how well she can tap dance.

* VillainyFreeVillain: Alison Hargate in Molly's series is probably ''supposed'' to come off like like a SpoiledBrat (and does way in the movie), but is more of a LonelyRichKid set apart; Molly thinks she's bragging whenever she so much as speaks honestly about her life, though Alison isn't doing it to brag.

* AscendedExtra: Emily was originally a minor character who stayed with Molly's family for two weeks while her autn was sick. She was later made into a doll, given her own book and starred prominently in the movie.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Despite the feminine outfit the doll comes in and pearl necklace accessory, Maryellen is tomboyish, doesn't mind getting dirty and plays wildly. She is tomboyish in comparison to many members of her family such as her mother Kaye (who is a housewife now); her older sisters Joan and Carolyn, who are more feminine and into fashion; and her friends Karen King, Karen Stohlman, and Angela Terlizzi, who don't hang out with boys like Maryellen does and don't understand why she doesn't want to be in Girl Scouts as much now. However, Maryellen has a girly side and likes fashion as well--more for how it can help her stand out from the middle of a large family.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nicki can sometimes be pretty snarky and bosses Isabel around due to being born six minutes earlier, but she still loves her and tries to share things with Isabel, including her bedroom, despite having many differences from her.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After Caroline Abbott retired in May 2015, Maryellen was the one to take her place four months later, and although Maryellen is growing up during the 1950s while Caroline grows up during the 1810s, they are both tomboys at heart due to being more active and energetic and having a strong love for activities that were considered "masculine" during both of their eras, like how Maryellen enjoys playing cowgirl and being in the science instead of the Girls Scouts, while Caroline likes sailing, fishing, and ice skating. However, both characters do have girly sides for feminine outfits and a few feminine activities, like how Maryellen loves dressing up in poodle skirts, while Caroline loves dressing up in feminine dresses and is skilled at sewing.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Molly is an energetic girl who enjoys camping and has a more dark-toned wardrobe while Linda and Susan but are more fashionable and feminine. Molly's tomboyish personality is compared at a more specific level with Emily, who is more proper, enjoys tea parties, and is more calm natured.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Caroline is a sailor enjoys ice skating, fishing, and sailing, which makes her slightly tomboyish comparison to her older cousin, Lydia Livingston, who is into hair styling. Caroline is also tomboyish in comparison to her friend, Rhonda Hathaway, who is not into ice skating and is just as feminine as Lydia.