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Tag Archives: Maud Hart Lovelace
The Books: Betsy and Joe (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA fiction shelf: Next book on the shelf is Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace. Senior year at Deep Valley High! Hmm, let’s see. Betsy has had a kind of school rivalry as well as an … Continue reading
The Books: Betsy Was a Junior (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA fiction shelf: Next book on the shelf is Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace. If I had to choose – I might say that this is the best one of the series. I remember … Continue reading
The Books: Betsy in Spite of Herself (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Children’s/ YA fiction Bookshelf: Next book on the shelf is Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace. This is about Betsy’s sophomore year in high school! More wonderful-ness. More trials and tribulations. Betsy decides to basically create another … Continue reading
The Books: Heaven to Betsy (Maud Hart Lovelace)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA fiction shelf: Next book on the shelf is Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace. My family is totally going to remember me reading these Betsy books as a teenager. I had an almost unhealthy obsession … Continue reading
Snapshots
— I got a new phone. Did you know that they make phones with CAMERAS IN THEM NOW???? hahaha I know I’m behind. I still listen to cassette tapes, for God’s sake. But I love my phone so much that … Continue reading
Old Childhood Books
Member when I tracked down the book about the bimulous night? And how exciting it was to find it again? Well suddenly yesterday I went on a rampage. Of book-searching. And I just bought about 10 books from my childhood … Continue reading