Looking Back at American Girl: Historical Character Mysteries

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Historical Character Mysteries are mystery stories starring Historical Characters, including those released through BeForever. Each story is set either after or during the events of the Central Series, at some point after the character's meet book (for example, Shadows on Society Hill happens after Changes for Addy). The target audience is the nine-to-twelve age group. Each book has multiple layered mysteries occurring, with the title referencing the main mystery going on throughout the book.

The books had no inner illustrations and covered more mature topics than are touched on in the Central Series and included Looking Back sections that discuss the topics. Early editions of books had removable bookmarks or information cards on the back flap that also listed other titles in the series, which were removed with the rebranding. During BeForever, several prior mysteries were been reprinted with new covers and additions.

All Historical Character mystery books were retired with the end of BeForever in 2019, and no characters after Nanea have received mystery books. The series showcased all characters at least once but was heavily unbalanced towards character representation, with Kit receiving the most with seven books total but Kirsten, Addy, Nanea, and Melody each only receiving one and a gap of ten or more years between Kaya and Josefina's two mysteries.