Felicity learns a lesson / Tripp, Valerie

Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Williamsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England.

In volume two in a six-volume American Girl series, nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg is sent to Miss Manderly's to learn manners and etiquette and meets a young English girl, Elizabeth, but when the king's taxes forces a boycott on tea, Felicity's tea lessons may be in jeopardy.