Directed by Vince Marcello. McKenna Brooks is the tenth Girl of the Year released by American Girl.

If McKenna had worked hard, struggled back from injury but NOT made the regional team, they could have shown constructive ways to handle disappointment and how she could still enjoy and participate in gymnastics without being on the regional team. McKenna is a ten-year-old girl in fourth grade who lives on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington. With Jade Pettyjohn, Kerris Dorsey, Nia Vardalos, Ian Ziering. She was released in 2012. An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars (released in PAL territories as American Girl: Shooting for the Stars) is a 2012 American family-drama film starring actress Jade Pettyjohn, Ysa Penarejo, Cathy Rigby, Nia Vardalos, and Ian Ziering. Unfortunately, the song wasn't on iTunes and Amazon only had the song available with the purchase of the entire album, so I bit the bullet and bought all the songs just so they could listen to the one song. American Girl McKenna comes to life in this modern-day adventure about a determined gymnast who must focus on her strengths to overcome challenges and find a way to believe in herself again. My daughters love the McKenna movie and always found themselves singing one of the songs on the soundtrack, prompting me to look for it on iTunes. Here's what: American Girl movies show their heroines facing struggles, but they always end up getting what they want. That's not real life. She is skilled in gymnastics but struggles with her schoolwork, specifically reading comprehension. This film is based on the McKenna books in the American Girl series written by Mary Casanova.