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 4: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

  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.

  ISBN 978-0-06-179472-8

  EPub Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-199955-0

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