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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1940
  • Latest Book:
    November 2009
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Full Series List in Order

A Betsy-Tacy Book

1 - Betsy-Tacy (1940)
2 - Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941)
3 - Betsy and Tacy Go over the Big Hill (1942)
4 - Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)
5 - Heaven to Betsy (1945)
6 - Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
7 - Betsy Was a Junior (1947)
8 - Betsy and Joe (1948)
9 - Betsy and the Great World (1952)
10 - Betsy's Wedding (1955)

A Deep Valley Book

Carney's House Party (1949)
Emily of Deep Valley (1950)
Winona's Pony Cart (1953)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • BETSY hopes that whoever moves into the house across the street will have a little girl just her age. And the little girl who moves in is just her age. Her name is Tacy. She is very bashful, but she likes to listen to Betsy's stories -- wonderful sto...



  • 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 sister...



  • Going on Ten Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can t wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up--exciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the Scho...



  • Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve -- old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They even find themsel...



  • Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High--with new and old friends all around her . . . not to mention boys But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall Dark Stranger."...



  • Betsy is at the center of every activity as a Deep Valley High sophomore--and suddenly, thanks to her old friend Tib, she's offered a golden opportunity for glorious transformation. But will she impress the special boy by becoming dramatic, mysteriou...



  • The Best School Year Ever That's the kind of junior year Betsy Ray has planned for herself. And when her childhood friend Tib Muller moves back to Deep Valley, Betsy's sure her perfect year is off to a grand start. With charming, funny Tib around,...



  • In her senior year of high school, Betsy Ray is torn between Joe Willard, who has written her letters all summer, and Tony Markham, her longtime friend who now sees her in a more romantic light. Reissue....



  • It is the summer of 1911, the Carney Sibley is back home in her beloved town of Deep Valley, Minnesota. She's looking forward to hosting a month-long house party, with guests including her Vassar college roommate Isobel Porteous and old chum Betsy Ra...






  • Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. After graduation, she longs to join the Crowd and go off to college--but she can't leave her grandfather alone at home. Resigning her...



  • Bon Voyage, Betsy! Betsy Ray has dreamed of seeing the great world ever since she was a little girl growing up in Deep Valley, Minnesota. Now twenty-one years old, she's finally getting her wish! From Munich to Venice, Paris to London, Betsy's gra...



  • Almost-eight-year-old Winona, living in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Minnesota, knows she has a special red dress and lots of friends for her birthday party, but she wonders if she will really get the pony that she is longing for....



  • When Betsy's boat docks in New York, Joe is waiting there . . . with a ring But she's going to learn that marriage isn't all candlelight, roses, and kisses. There's also cooking, ironing, cleaning, and budgeting-- and will she be able to find time to...



  • This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. Maud Hart Lovelace's careful research into the documents of the Historical Society, combined with he...



  • Maud Hart Lovelace -- internationally famed author of the Betsy-Tacy children's books -- joined literary forces with her husband, Delos, to produce Gentlemen from England, first published in 1937. It's the fictionalized story of a real nineteenth-cen...



  • Maud Hart Lovelace, author of six historical fiction novels and eighteen children's books, is internationally known for the Betsy-Tacy children's books. Her first novel, "The Black Angels", was published in 1926. This fascinating story is set in Minn...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maud Hart Lovelace has published 16 books.

Maud Hart Lovelace does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Black Angels, was published in November 2009.

The first book by Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy, was published in January 1940.

Yes. Maud Hart Lovelace has 2 series.