Betsy

Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy. Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib. Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Growing up alone with no siblings, Betsy always felt alone. She always wanted a big family, but that wasn't going to happen. When her best friend moved away, she was devastated. She never could imagine that losing her parents as well was going to take a big toll on her life for the bad and the good. She would find further in life that she could be happy again and that dreams do come true. She always dreamed of owning a horse and competing with it. All she ever wanted to do was to be an equestrian. Later she would understand and believe that angels do exist and that there were some watching over her. Finding true love was going to be a blessing in disguise for her and finding it was just around the corner. Things happen for a reason, and miracles do come true.

After a strange and alarming phone call from her elderly uncle Pete gets abruptly cut off, kindergarten teacher Betsy McGovern returns to her hometown of Eagle Point, Maine. She soon learns that her beloved uncle Pete and godmother, Lily Mae Warren, the lighthouse keeper of Eagle Point Light, have been kidnapped. Eagle Point sheriff Francis Willette helps Betsy unravel the puzzling family secrets and shocking local murders that welcome her home. Betsy and the handsome sheriff sort out the clues to the case while they sort out the feelings they have for each other. Betsy also has to keep Eagle Point Light burning. Watching her back might not be a bad idea, either. With two dead bodies and no solid suspects, Betsy and Francis frantically work to solve the case and bring Betsy's loved ones home before they become the final victims in an elaborate scheme to keep past secrets hidden.

The adventures of Betsy, a USA school bus born with spirit and grit, as she matures, enjoys life, endures tragedies, and finally emerges in a triumphant climax in remote Mexico.

In Betsy's Adventures, Betsy, a school teacher, explores the secrets of Santa Cruz County. She starts her family and along the way meets many of the characters in the county's rich history. She helps to found a state park. Betsy finds two children while exploring in the mountains. She eventually marries a rich lawyer from San Francisco after a long engagement. She rides on the InterUrban streetcar, loses her best friend in a cave, experiences the 1918 earthquake with her boyfriend. With wit, intellect and morality, Thomas-Zucker crafts a cast of ordinary characters that are easy to relate to and display a broad range of human emotions. Thomas-Zucker hopes Betsy's Adventures will inspire anyone who reads it to go and explore the "secret" places that are mentioned in Betsy's Adventures and create their own adventures and fall in love with the beautiful area as she has. Maybe even uncover a mystery or two that still lurches around creating intrigue and mystery.

My First book "Meet Betsy" was to introduce Betsy; the time in history was not so long ago; for we are a young nation. Now that you have met Betsy our adventures have just begun. Our lives unfolded with each adventure of heart warming moments of each new story. Don't miss this series of Betsy that became Annie's best friend and the history that has been forgotten.

Time Period: 1808 Thirteen-year-old Betsy Miller is shocked when her parents decide to move from their home in Boston to the rugged frontier city of Cincinnati. They'll take a dangerous, weeks-long journey by boat down the Ohio River. If that's not bad enough, Betsy's annoying cousin George is also making the trip-with his equally annoying dog. Especially for girls ages eight to twelve, this exciting story shares the emotional turmoil of a young woman experiencing dramatic life changes-while at the same time teaching important lessons of Christian faith and American history. It's an ideal book for personal reading or homeschooling.