Some characters become your friends for life. -- Meg Cabot. -- Anna Quindlen Slipping into a Betsy book is like slipping into a favorite pair of well-worn slippers: It\'s always a pleasure to live in Betsy\'s world for a little while, to experience her simple joys, but also her (thankfully short-lived) sorrows. -- Laura Lippman There are three authors whose body of work I have re-read more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Maud Hart Lovelace.
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.
Featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman and the original cover art from Heaven to Betsy . --Judy Blume With a Foreword by Laura Lippman These two books in Maud Hart Lovelace\'s beloved Betsy-Tacy series: Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself see Betsy and Tacy start high school in Deep Valley, Minnesota.
That\'s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Some characters become your friends for life
