Maud Hart Lovelace

After graduating from high school, Emily Webster longs to go off with everyone else, but she must stay home and take care of her grandfather, a Civil War veteran, and it is at home that she discovers many new adventures.

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 School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes...

When her old friend Tib Miller invites her to spend Christmas in Milwaukee, plain old Betsy Ray begins her transformation into the dramatic and mysterious Betsye. The trouble is, Betsye can't help being Betsy in spite of herself. But as she discovers, that's even better.

The adventures of Betsy and Tacy in their first year of high school.

"It was always hard to be a shy new girl, but today it was especially hard for Janice, because the fifth grade was having its Valentine party. What if there were no valentines for her in the big red Valentine Box? She had pasted and colored valentines for boys and girls in her class, and she hoped they would become her friends, but she hadn't made any real friends yet. Janice wished she could stay home, but of course she couldn't. Then, on the way...

After Grandmother explains why the trees in Lebanon kneel at Christmas, Afify and Hanna hope to witness a similar miracle in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Betsy was a junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could turn out to be her worst--Cover. Betsy and Joe: Betsy Always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other - and now summer's over and senior year's begun, it seems her dream is coming true! But her friend, Tony Markham has come calling as well - and his intentions...

One Stayed at Welcome opens with the founding of Welcome by two young men, Larry and Dan, who became friends on their trek from the East. Their little town grows rapidly and within two years many new faces are to be found on the shores of Lake Welcome. Among the varied newcomers is an old school teacher and his daughter Lillie. Before a winter has passed both men are in love with her. Soon their hidden jealousy flames up in a youthful quarrel that...