Carney Sibley: Marion “Marney” Willard
Grandma Slade: Mary Warren Pitcher
Tom Slade: Thomas Warren Fox
Hazel Smith: Harriet Ahlers
Squirrelly: Earl Elmer King
(Aunt) Ruth Willard: Josephine Wheeler Lovelace
Joe Willard: Delos Wheeler Lovelace
About the Author
MAUD HART LOVELACE (1892–1980) based her Betsy-Tacy series on her own childhood. Her series still boasts legions of fans, many of whom are members of the Betsy-Tacy Society, a national organization based in Mankato, Minnesota.
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Credit
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Cover and spine illustrations by Vera Neville
The Betsy-Tacy Books
Book 1: Betsy-Tacy
Book 2: Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Book 3: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Book 5: Heaven to Betsy
Book 6: Betsy in Spite of Herself
Book 7: Betsy Was a Junior
Book 8: Betsy and Joe
Book 9: Betsy and the Great World
Book 10: Betsy’s Wedding
The Deep Valley Books
Winona’s Pony Cart
Carney’s House Party
Emily of Deep Valley
Copyright
BETSY WAS A JUNIOR. Copyright © 1947 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Copyright © renewed 1975 by Maud Hart Lovelace. BETSY AND JOE. Copyright © 1948 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Copyright © renewed 1976 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Foreword copyright © 2009 by Meg Cabot. “Maud Hart Lovelace and Her World” (adapted from The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace by Sharla Scannell Whalen) copyright © 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Betsy Was a Junior was first published in 1947 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. First Harper Trophy edition published 1995.
Betsy and Joe was first published in 1948 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. First Harper Trophy edition published 1995.
FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS EDITION PUBLISHED 2009.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
EPub Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-199955-0
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