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Books with author Betsy Cromer Byars

  • McMummy

    Betsy C. Byars

    Hardcover (Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, July 5, 1993)
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  • The Summer of the Swans

    Betsy Byars

    Paperback (Puffin Books, April 12, 2004)
    Sara's life has always flowed smoothly, like the gliding swans on the lake, until her little brother Charlie disappears. Then Sara is forced to see her life in a whole new way.
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  • Good-bye, Chicken Little

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, July 6, 1979)
    A boy discovers that he doesn't have to feel personally responsible for his uncle's drowning.
    Q
  • The Golly Sisters go West

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Hardcover (Weekly Reader Books, Aug. 16, 1985)
    May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way.
    K
  • The Computer Nut

    Betsy Byars

    Paperback (Puffin Books, Aug. 5, 1986)
    Kate’s new friend is really out of this world—he’s an alien! When Kate sits down at the computer, nothing seems out of the ordinary. But suddenly a mysterious message flashes up on the screen. Someone who calls himself BB-9 is trying to get through to her. It doesn’t take long for Kate to figure out who BB-9 is—and she’s sure that everyone else will be as excited as she is. But what do you do when you’re about to make headlines . . . and no one believes you? “Readers . . . will be easily hooked on the fascinating sci-fi premise.”—Booklist
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  • The Black Tower

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Paperback (Puffin Books Nov-08-2007, March 15, 2007)
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  • The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Sept. 1, 1989)
    Abandoned by a mother who is hiding from the FBI, eight-year-old Warren escapes into horror movie fantasies while he waits for her return.
    V
  • The dancing camel

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Library Binding (Viking Press, March 15, 1965)
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  • Death's Door

    Betsy Byars

    language (Puffin Books, June 1, 2006)
    Herculeah Jones finds herself in the middle of another mystery when her best friend Meat barely escapes a hitman’s bullet. Someone must have mistaken Meat for someone else. But who? Herculeah is determined to solve the mystery, before the assassin comes after her!
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  • Trouble river and related readings

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Hardcover (McDougal Littell, March 15, 1998)
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  • King of Murder

    Betsy Byars

    eBook (Puffin Books, Feb. 15, 2007)
    Together with her best friend and reluctant sidekick, Meat, Herculeah Jones meets a famous mystery author, Mathias King, aka the Murder King. King's novels mirror gruesome, real-life murders, particularly A Slash of Life, which is about an unsolved local stabbing. Some people believe Mathias King isn't making up the details, could he actually be responsible for the crime? Herculeah's sure she can find out. But Meat seems too busy with his new girlfriend to give Herculeah much of a hand. Can Herculeah solve this mystery on her own, or will Meat's dating be this sleuth's downfall?
    U
  • 18th Emergency

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Jan. 1, 1988)
    A boy nicknamed Mouse believes that a group of boys wants to kill him after he writes a bully's name on a picture at school
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