Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061998311
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves. They are not as good as they might be. They cook up awful messes in the kitchen, throw mud on each other and pretend to be beggars, and cut off each other's hair. But Betsy, Tacy, and Tib always manage to have a good time. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061998281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve—old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They even find themselves acting in one! Best of all, they help a lonely new friend feel at home in Deep Valley—the most wonderful place in the world to grow up. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Betsy-Tacy

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061998303
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy. Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib. Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Emily of Deep Valley

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062094289
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
“I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint—shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!—can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern.” —Laura Lippman “There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace.” —Anna Quindlen Often considered Maud Hart Lovelace’s best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous volume includes a new foreword by acclaimed young adult author Mitali Perkins, and compelling historical material about the real people who inspired Lovelace’s beloved characters. Emily of Deep Valley joins the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books.

Betsy's Wedding

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064405443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
After Betsy's tour of Europe, she marries her old flame Joe Willard, and learns that marriage is a lot of work.

Betsy and Joe

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780064405461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Betsy is looking forward to a perfect senior year as Joe's girlfriend.

Betsy Was a Junior

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780064405478
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The adventures of Betsy, now a junior at Deep Valley High School in Minnesota.

Carney's House Party/Winona's Pony Cart

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062094270
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
“Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” —Judy Blume “I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray’s….As I read...I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny’s childhood.” —Ann M. Martin, author of The Baby-sitter's Club Two of Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Deep Valley books join the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library, next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books. This beautiful combination edition of Carney's House Party and Winona's Pony Cart features a foreword by author Melissa Wiley and a never-before-published biography of Lovelace illustrator Vera Neville.

Maud Hart Lovelace's Deep Valley

Author: Julie A. Schrader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971316829
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
Photography and historical information about the places and faces featured in the Betsy-Tacy Deep Valley books. Includes a removable map containing a walking or driving tour of the locations featured in the books, bibliographies of books by Maud Hart Lovelace, a list of characters and their real-life counterparts, and a membership application for the Betsy-Tacy Society.

Betsy and the Great World

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780064405454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Betsy tours Europe in 1914.