The original " My Girl " was about an year-old girl whose dad is an undertaker. Midway through the movie, her best friend suddenly dies. In "My Girl 2," the heroine is about 13, and goes on a quest for information about the mother she never knew, who died two days after giving birth. The authors of this series must have been inspired by that gloomy little girl Huckleberry Finn met on his travels, who always wore black and wrote poems that used "alas! The girl is named Vada Sultenfuss, played again this time by Anna Chlumsky , who has a winning personality and an endearing screen presence. Her dad Dan Aykroyd has married the cosmetologist Jamie Lee Curtis from the family funeral home, and Vada is about to get a younger sibling. Consumed by curiosity about her own origins, she decides to do a school research project about her late mother, and spends her lifetime's savings for a five-day trip to Los Angeles, where her mother grew up.

Keep kids learning with daily schedules and activities. Go to Wide Open School. Skip to Content. All the parental figures stepmom included are loving, involved, and none is a pushover on discipline. The overall arc of the story is positive, about finding out who you are and being proud of your roots.

See our picks. A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend. A city girl teams up with a tomboy to solve the mystery of Bear Mountain, Molly Morgan, and the buried treasure as well as learn about true friendships. This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl.