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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of Betsy-Tacy lovers find BWAJ a difficult book.  Betsy makes many wrong choices and suffers the consequences.  I find it very instructive without being preachy.  Two life lessons that it teaches are: 1. Often seemingly simple fun and frivolous pasttimes can have very negative effects in our li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4451834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[for the first time in my young adolesence as a Betsy, this story helped me believe that not only could I be pretty and popular and go out on dates, but when preparing for said dates, I could even do adorably clumsy things like burning my bangs off with a curling iron, and I would still come out alri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1007913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably one of my favorites from the series.  Ah, nostalgia!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Betsy Was a Junior is perhaps the most fun-filled book of the entire Betsy-Tacy series. It opens with Tib's return from Milwaukee, which is met with joy and happiness by Betsy and Tacy. Three strong once again, the girls busy themselves with attending dances, performing in school recitals, and, of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8083144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my least favorite in the entire Betsy-Tacy series--which still makes it a better read than most adolescent fiction today! I didn't like Betsy's absorption with sororities, and I felt that the book's focus on Okto Delta left out some of the more charming details of school and home life the ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50173332">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some things about sororities don't seemed to have changed much in the last 100 years... I was surprised and then pleased to find this a large part of this year in Betsy's life. She is inspired by her older sister's reports of rushing at U.Minn., so she starts her own sorority with her HS buddies. Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72737289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;She stood for some time with the card in her hand before she went upstairs.&quot;<br/>I love that I don't consider this to be my favorite of the high school Betsy-Tacy books, but I still consider it worthy of a 5-star rating. Maud's superb writing always gives me new ideas to sort over. With ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43179778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A discussion of what true friendship and realistic goals.  With love, humor, and onion sandwiches in-between.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much every fall, I read the entire series.  Have been doing this since I was 8.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very awesome, this girl from books before comes back from this place.<br/><br/>This book was really awesome, the ending was really sad! I think this person might die of this illness that was really common in the early 1900s witch was when this book takes place. I really liked this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45610369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Betsy-Tacy series is set in the 20s I think.  Every time I read a Betsy book (or an Anne book) it makes me wish for a simpler time. BUT in comparing the attitudes of Betsy's &quot;Crowd&quot; to today's gaggle of kids I don't think their motives are very different.  It's the means in which the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40795737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In which Betsy and her friends form Okto Delta, and prove that hanging out with the popular kids can take its toll on yer academic life. Still fascinated by the mysterious Joe Willard, Betsy dates boys from the Crowd instead, and it all comes down to an Essay Contest she wasn't even invited to parti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5412174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just changed my rating from 4 to 5 stars.  As a kid, the sorority parts left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and they still do, but there is such a great lesson to be learned, and there are so many other wonderful parts of the book that I decided I do love it after all !  Also, on this reread, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21545049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another in the series that made almost no impact on me as a kid. It was very flighty, and hard to see Tib being so not-Tib like. Pox on Betsy for instigating that, and then not being able to follow through herself! <br/><br/>Dave was an amusing beau, though, and it was a fun read. Just no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29959491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picking up any of these books is instant nostalgia for me.  I loved them as a child and still love rereading them as an adult.  My children also read them but never fell in love with them like I did.  Betsy, Tacy, Tib and the Crowd are my lifelong friends.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book number seven. This is my least favorite because every time I read it, I can't stand some of the choices Betsy makes! (I skip this one sometimes when I'm going through the series.) But Betsy is still endearing and funny. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 19:56:02 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have adored the Betsy-Tacy books all my life. Recently, my dear friend gave me two of the books (vintage copies even) as a gift for being in her wedding so I'm indulging myself in some childhood fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-reading with Kristen, Nov. '09.  Rolling my eyes at Betsy (and occasionally at &quot;Silly Tib&quot;), as I always do when I read this book, but appreciating, as always, how wonderfully the story is told.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Always good to have something light. This one is definitely light, but I didn't connect with it as well as some of the other Betsy-Tacy books. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely charming, beautifully written Young Adult series based upon the memoirs of author Maud Hart Lovelace. A great comfort read.]]></body>
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