Maud Hart Lovelace

Series

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Lexile measure

650L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Best Friends ForeverThere 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...

2) Betsy-Tacy and Tib

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Series

Lexile measure

650L

Language

English

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...

3) Betsy and Tacy go downtown

Author

Series

Lexile measure

670L

Language

English

Description

The further adventures of 12-year-old Betsy, Tacy, and Tib as they explore the world beyond their neighborhood and discover the public library, see a real play, and make friends with the owners of the downtown hotel.

4) Emily of Deep Valley

Author

Series

Deep Valley book

Language

English

Description

After graduating from high school, Emily Webster longs to go off with everyone else, but she must stay home and take care of her grandfather, a Civil War veteran, and it is at home that she discovers many new adventures.

5) Betsy and Tacy go over the big hill

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Series

Lexile measure

640L

Language

English

Description

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up-exciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes...

6) Betsy in spite of herself

Author

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

Description

When her old friend Tib Miller invites her to spend Christmas in Milwaukee, plain old Betsy Ray begins her transformation into the dramatic and mysterious Betsye. The trouble is, Betsye can't help being Betsy in spite of herself. But as she discovers, that's even better.

7) Betsy and Joe: a Betsy-Tacy high school story

Author

Lexile measure

790L

Language

English

Description

Betsy Ray finally gets together with her longtime love interest, Joe Willard. Unfortunately an old friend comes calling for Betsy and she is torn between the two men.

8) The Betsy-Tacy treasury

Author

Language

English

Description

"The Betsy-Tacy Treasury brings together the first four books in Maud Hart Lovelace's classic series: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Tracing the girls' lives from early childhood to the brink of adolescence, Lovelace illuminates their innocent, mischievous fun and their eye-opening adventures exploring the world around them--from the stories Betsy spins from their neighborhood bench...

9) Betsy was a junior: Betsy and Joe

Author

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

Physical Desc

xiii, 603, 21 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 21 cm

Language

English

Description

Betsy was a junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could turn out to be her worst--Cover. Betsy and Joe: Betsy Always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other - and now summer's over and senior year's begun, it seems her dream is coming true! But her friend, Tony Markham has come calling as well - and his intentions...

10) Heaven to Betsy: Betsy in spite of herself

Author

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

Physical Desc

xi, 661, 23 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 21 cm

Language

English

Description

Heaven to Betsy: Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High - with new and old friends all around her...not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall, Dark Stranger".--Cover. Betsy in spite of herself: Betsy is at the center of every activity as a Deep Valley High sophomore - and suddenly, thanks to her old friend, Tib, she's offered a golden opportunity for glorious...

11) Betsy's wedding

Author

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

12) Heaven to Betsy: a Betsy-Tacy high school story

Author

Lexile measure

780L

Language

English

Description

The adventures of Betsy and Tacy in their first year of high school.

13) Betsy and the great world

Author

Lexile measure

780L

Language

English

Description

Betsy Ray, 21 years old, is heading off for a solo tour of Europe, and her journey is filled with adventure.

14) Early candlelight

Author

Series

Borealis

Pub. Date

1992

Physical Desc

322 pages ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Young Deedee DuGay knew everyone at Fort Snelling in the 1830s ... On an island in the Mississippi, near yet remote, lived Jasper Page, the leading fur trader in the territory ... And although he was far above her in social class, Deedee dared to love him. Their story is a rich and romantic re-creation of an important time in Minnesota history ... A new introduction compares the fictional Jasper Page to Henry H. Sibley, fur trader and first governor...

15) Betsy was a junior

Author

Lexile measure

800L

Language

English

Description

Betsy Ray is determined to make her junior year of high school the best ever. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned.

16) Carney's house party: and, Winona's pony cart : two Deep Valley books

Author

Series

Deep Valley book

Pub. Date

2010

Edition

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

Physical Desc

xiv, 392, 27 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Carney's house party: In the summer of 1911, Carney looks forward to hosting a month-long house party at her Deep Valley home with not only her Vassar college roommate as a guest but all the old crowd, especially her high school sweetheart who moved to California four years before. Winona's pony cart: Almost-eight-year-old Winona, living in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Minnesota, knows she has a special red dress and lots of friends for her birthday...

17) The black angels

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Language

English

18) One stayed at Welcome

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Language

English

Description

One Stayed at Welcome opens with the founding of Welcome by two young men, Larry and Dan, who became friends on their trek from the East. Their little town grows rapidly and within two years many new faces are to be found on the shores of Lake Welcome. Among the varied newcomers is an old school teacher and his daughter Lillie. Before a winter has passed both men are in love with her. Soon their hidden jealousy flames up in a youthful quarrel that...

19) The valentine box

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Language

English

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Valentine's Day

Description

"It was always hard to be a shy new girl, but today it was especially hard for Janice, because the fifth grade was having its Valentine party. What if there were no valentines for her in the big red Valentine Box? She had pasted and colored valentines for boys and girls in her class, and she hoped they would become her friends, but she hadn't made any real friends yet. Janice wished she could stay home, but of course she couldn't. Then, on the way...

20) Betsy and the great world: and Betsy's wedding

Author

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

Physical Desc

643 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Language

English

Description