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    <body><![CDATA[I am so enjoying this series. This is the third book and possibly my favorite so far, and I liked the second book more than the first, but that's hard to say because they're all so good. I have the fourth one to read before I get to the (middle) two in the series which are the only two that I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6847912">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Betsy and Tacy books for the joy of it, and this one does not disappoint.  The series is plainly not about people frozen in time.  I mean, the period stays the same, but, as in really good books, the people change.  Here, our heroines turn ten years old --- an important age that they've b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69281594">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't read this Betsy-Tacy book till I moved to California and had a renewed interest in the life of Maud Hart Lovelace after finding the friendship bench in Claremont. <br/>I feel it may be her best story. Rather then being a series of vignettes, as most of her books are, it tells a lovely conci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73923099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fun continues in this third installment of Maud Hart Lovelace's wonderful <em>Betsy-Tacy</em> series, which follows the adventures of three young girls - Betsy (Elizabeth) Ray, Tacy (Anastacia) Kelly, and Tib (Thelma) Muller - as they grow up in early twentieth-century Minnesota. In <u>Betsy and Tacy Go Ove...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53838458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill is the third book in the timeless Betsy-Tacy-Tib series. In this latest chapter in the trio's childhood, the girls begin to develop with age and maturity. First the girls turned ten which is a big deal for them, especially for Betsy. They finally have two numbers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8081959">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The style of the books are starting to grow up here, along with Betsy, Tacy and Tib - the writing is more mature, and not all chapters are stand alone stories. <br/><br/>Reading these, I have to wonder why and how Tib put up with them for all those years! She was clearly the lesser person in their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28505049">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story finds Betsy, Tacy and Tib at ten years old. Their world is getting wider, and they are learning new things. This is the first time that the Lebanese settlement of Little Syria is mentioned in the series, and it's nicely done. Cultural differences are examined in a way that pre-teens will ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6008703">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightful. I think I would have loved it as a little girl and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it a chapter at a time to Lydia before bed each night.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[after being sort of ho-hum about the first two books, this one charms and i'm beginning to understand why so many are so devoted to them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love every single one of the Betsy-Tacy books (except of course the ones I havn't read).]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED the Betsy &amp; Tacy books when I was a girl!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Does it need saying?  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. <p>Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. <p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still 5 stars. It’s especially fun, as an adult, to see BT&amp;T’s world growing bigger as they meet  people from a different culture, confront bigotry, and travel to the edges—and beyond—of the Hill Street neighborhood. I especially loved meeting all the neighbors. Now, I’m looking forward to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5057730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cultural diversity in Betsy-Tacy books! Who knew?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another reread of a childhood favorite for the Maud-L Power Read.  This one is all about the King of Spain, the Queen o' the May, a princess and a coronation.  It is such an honest portrayal of sibling squabbles but with humor, pathos and a happy ending.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Betsy, Tacy, and Tib, how I have missed you.<br/><br/>(&quot;Just think!&quot; said Betsy. &quot;We're sitting here on the hitching block and at this very minute he's <em>somewhere,</em> doing <em>something.</em>&quot;)<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was attracted to this book because we share a common name.  I loved this book and went on to read them all.  I was thrilled when they were all republished and I know own the whole set.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read all the Betsy Tacy books. It is a really fun series. Now I am reading them with my 5 year old daughter. This is the second onw we have read. She is liking it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first of the books that I really liked. I love the Bohemians and how the girls think they all fall in love!]]></body>
    
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