Carney's House Party/Winona's Pony Cart
Title | Carney's House Party/Winona's Pony Cart PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062094270 |
“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.
Carney's House Party
Title | Carney's House Party PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Female friendship |
ISBN | 9780613310468 |
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
Title | Winona's Pony Cart PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780613275996 |
Winona Root tells her friends she's going to get a pony for her birthday. It's only when the exciting day draws near that Winona begins to wonder: What if her father meant it when he said she "couldn't" have a pony?
Emily of Deep Valley
Title | Emily of Deep Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062094289 |
“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.
Home for the Holidays
Title | Home for the Holidays PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Vogel Frederick |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-10-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1442406852 |
Becca, Megan, Emma, Cassidy, and Jess are not home for Christmas but traveling.
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Title | Betsy-Tacy and Tib PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2011-05-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0061998311 |
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's Wedding
Title | Betsy's Wedding PDF eBook |
Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 1996-03-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0064405443 |
After Betsy's tour of Europe, she marries her old flame Joe Willard, and learns that marriage is a lot of work.