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Books with author BETSY BYARS

  • The House of Wings

    Betsy Byars

    Paperback (Puffin Books, July 29, 1982)
    Left with his grandfather until his parents are settled in Detroit, Sammy learns to respect and love the old man as they care for an injured crane together.
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  • Cascades - "The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish

    Betsy Byars

    Hardcover (HarperCollins Publishers, April 16, 1987)
    The horror film scripts that Warren reads are as real to him as life itself. This imaginary world of horror movies sustains Warren through the long wait for his mother's return.
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  • Blossom Promise, A

    Betsy Byars

    Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Sept. 1, 1987)
    In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.
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  • Tarot Says Beware: A Herculeah Jones Mystery

    Betsy Byars

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 1, 1997)
    Herculeah Jones and her bumbling pal, Meat, investigate the murder of a palm reader
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  • Trouble River and Related Readings

    Betsy Byars

    Hardcover (MCDOUGAL LITTEL, Oct. 29, 1997)
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  • The Summer of the Swans

    Betsy Byars

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 1, 1970)
    The Summer of the Swans - bk338; Scholastic Inc.; Betsy Byars; pocket_book; 1970
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  • 18th Emergency

    Betsy Byars

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 30, 1981)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When the toughest boy in school swears to kill him, twelve-year-old Mouse finds little help from friends and must prepare for this emergency alone.
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  • The Pinballs

    Betsy Byars

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Book Services, Aug. 16, 1977)
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  • Summer of the Swans: Novel-Ties Study Guide

    Betsy Byars

    Paperback (Learning Links, Jan. 1, 1985)
    Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
  • Beans on the Roof

    BETSY BYARS

    Hardcover (RH Canada UK Dist, Oct. 15, 1988)
    The Bean family take to writing poetry on the roof. Anna is confident that hers will be selected for a book by her school. When it is not she is heart-broken, but Papa restores happiness by telling them how proud he is of his extraordinary family. The author has written over 16 novels for children including "The Night Swimmers" (winner of the 1981 US National Book Award), "The Eighteenth Emergency", "The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown" and the popular series about the Blossom family.
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  • The Pinballs

    Betsy Byars

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 10, 2004)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own Iives.
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  • McMummy

    Betsy C. Byars

    Hardcover (Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, July 5, 1993)
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