The Betsy-Tacy Series

Fiction by Maud Hart Lovelace

Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. Enjoy these classic stories and support The Betsy-Tacy Society with your order.

The following books in the Betsy-Tacy series will be available in Fall 2008. Keep checking our website for availability:

Heaven to Betsy
Betsy in Spite of Herself
Betsy and the Great World
Betsy & Joe
Betsy's Wedding

Three satellite books in the series are now out of print. These are Winona’s Pony Cart, Carney’s House Party and Emily of Deep Valley. Winona’s Pony Cart and Emily of Deep Valley are still available from the Betsy-Tacy Emporium, however our stock is limited.

You can help bring these titles back in print by joining our letter-writing campaign to HarperCollins.
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Betsy-Tacy-new-CoverWeb.gif Betsy-Tacy (new cover)
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HarperCollins has re-issued Betsy-Tacy with a new cover design.

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 met at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy become 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.

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Lois Lenski

122p.

 

 

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By Maud Hart Lovelace (Author) and Sutton Foster (Narrator)


 

 

betsyTacyTib.jpg Betsy-Tacy and Tib
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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.

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Lois Lenski, Forward by Ann M. Martin.
160 pp.


 

 

bighill.jpg Betsy and Tacy Go Over The Big Hill
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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 sometime the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else.

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Lois Lenski, Forward by Judy Blume.
178 pp.


 

 

downtown.jpg Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
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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.

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Lois Lenski, Forward by Johanna Hurwitz
223 pp.


 

 

junior.jpg Betsy was a Junior
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That's the kind of junior year Betsy Ray had planned for herself. And when her childhood friend Tib Mueller moves back to Deep Valley, Betsy's sure her perfect year is off to a grand start. With charming, funny Tib around, Crowd doings are more fun than ever-especially after Betsy starts Okto Delta, the first-ever sorority at Deep Valley High.

But soon Betsy's luck takes a bad turn. The Crowd is getting into trouble at school, and Betsy isn't given a chance to complete in the annual Essay Contest. Could Betsy's best school year turn out to be her worst?

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Vera Neville, Forward by Anna Quindlen
301 pp.


 

 

winona.jpg Winona's Pony Cart (Hard cover)
$15.89

Out-of-Print
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Winona Root is almost eight years old. More than anything in the world, she wants a pony for her birthday. She wishes so hard for a pony that she's sure to get one-at least, that's what she tells her friends Betsy, Tacy and Tib. It's only when the exciting day grows near that Winona begins to wonder: What if her father meant it when he said she couldn't have a pony?

Hardcover, Published by HarperCollins, Illustrated by Vera Neville
107 pp.


 

 

emily.jpg Emily of Deep Valley
$12.95

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Welcome back to Deep Valley!

Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. The gulf between Emily and her classmates widens even more when they graduate from Deep Valley High School in 1912. Emily longs to go off to college with everyone else, but she can't leave her grandfather.

Emily resigns herself to facing a "lost winter," but soon decides to stop feeling sorry for herself. And with a new program of study, a growing interest in the Syrian community, and a handsome new teacher at the high school to fill her days, Emily gains more than she ever dreamed...

Paperback, Published by HarperTrophy, Illustrated by Vera Neville
290 pp.