“The launch of BeForever resulted in the most dramatic changes to the styles and layouts the Central Series.

Most notably, the six-book series were rebundled into two-volume books--referred to as Classic Series--and the Central Series became no longer available as individual single book volumes. Each volume was given a unique name and contained three of the six books, with no titled separation between the books specifically. Reasons include making the books more palatable to e-book formats and to "age up" the books to the desired eight-to-twelve age range (as most children of those age ranges have or will soon transition into chapter books of considerable length with few to no illustrations).

• The top stripe contains the American Girl Logo, and below that the BeForever Logo.

• To the right side in a single character color stripe is the character name and the year. Instead of individual styled handwriting, a standard brush-writing style font was used for all names.

• An oval logo contains the unique name of the volume and ‘A classic featuring [Historical Character’s name]’

• Volume numbers are listed in the lower right.

• Theme colors for some characters changed dramatically. In Addy's case, the themed color changed from a dark orange to medium blue.

• All internal illustrations were removed.

• Previous dingbats are changed to new styles with some more unique to character theme or era. Addy's are now buttons reflecting her connections to sewing.

• Cover illustrations are more photo-realistic, and include detailed backgrounds. All new covers were done by Juliana Kolesova.

• Transitional paragraphs and sentences are placed between chapters in some books to tie books together.

• The Looking Back Section has been changed to ‘Inside [Historical Characters] World’ and is a two-page summary of the era.

• The spine is in the assigned color. At the top (left, when held with text upright) is the BeForever logo. In the center is the title of the volume, the new dingbat logo, and "A [Historical Character] Classic [1 or 2]. The bottom right is a red section with the American Girl logo.

• The back text either headlines with ‘Meet [Historical Character]’ (Vol 1) or ‘[Historical Characters] Story Continues…’ (Vol 2) and discusses, briefly, the stories contained inside the volume. Below are shown the covers of the other volume and the My Journey Book, with text saying to look for the other books. Below that is the AG promotional text, followed by a unique dividing line appropriate to the era (e.g buttons for Addy) over data about American Girl, the book and the ISBN and barcode.

• In 2018, with the release of Molly's BeForever volumes, all books took on the cover look that had been introduced with Felicity's volumes for uniformity.

• The Historical Characters name is in large brush script at the top just below the American Girl logo stripe. The text of ‘A Classic Featuring [Historical Character Name]’ is removed, as well as any volume numbers from the front; volume numbers remain on the side. The title of the volume is not isolated in an oval frame and directly printed on the cover image. BeForever is repositioned where the name had been previously, in a small burgundy ribbon in the lower corner with the year and a star logo. Ribbons are no longer in individual colors; designated colors are on the spine.

• Furthermore, cover images were resized in various ways for some characters. Some cover images were zoomed in or out, re-centered, or adjusted.” (American Girl Wiki, 2023)