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374: 22: 568: 363:, prompting Betsy to try her hand at writing her own. Eventually, Betsy shares her secret writings with her mother, who successfully encourages her to write fiction of more elevated character. Betsy's parents decide that in order to foster a love of classic literature and make Betsy a better writer, she will be allowed to go alone to the new 342:
for the first time when Mr. Poppy, the owner of the Opera House, buys an automobile. Betsy's friend Tib is his first passenger — along with his wife — due simply to her having the boldness to ask for a ride. Although the girls' classmate Winona Root is initially jealous of Tib over this
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at the Opera House. Betsy befriends the lonely Mrs. Poppy, who welcomes the chance to share the little girls' affection after having lost her only daughter in the years before moving to town. Through this friendship, the girls not only enjoy parties at the Poppy Hotel, but also participate in a
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experience, she soon gets over it and invites Betsy, Tacy, and Tib to their first real theatrical experience, a dramatized version of
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every two weeks, with spending money for a special mid-day treat to let her stay all day.
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that lets Mrs. Poppy reunite Betsy's mother, Mrs. Ray, with her long-lost brother.
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Betsy and her friends also discover the temptations of
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with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.
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Maud Hart Lovelace
Lois Lenski
Betsy-Tacy
Children's fiction
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
HarperCollins
ISBN
0-690-13450-9
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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Heaven to Betsy
Betsy-Tacy
Maud Hart Lovelace
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horseless carriages
Deep Valley
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rip Van Winkle

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