melissad75 's review for:

Betsy and Joe: A Betsy-Tacy High School Story by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville

5.0

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I was off work today and spent most of my time reading this book. When I finished I was happy but teary-eyed. My little Betsy, who was 5 years old when I met her, was so grown up - a high school graduate with a serious boyfriend and ambitions for her future writing career. Her growth and gradual maturing over the course of the books is real and believable - funny, touching, at times painful to experience. All the characters in this series are so well-written and genuinely human that they feel like people I know and love in real life.

I'm starting to think I need to slow down my reading and not zip through the remaining two Betsy-Tacy books so quickly! I'm going to miss the Rays and their friends in Deep Valley, Minnesota too much when I'm finished.