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“I love writing. I’ve pursued it with a passion.”—Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars is a Newbery Medal winner and a National Book Award winner. Her books have appeared on the best books lists of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller, among others.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When she was a young girl living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Betsy Byars thought being a writer was a boring career, and never imagined she’d become an author one day. But years later, while her husband attended graduate school, Byars started writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Look, and other magazines. And as her family... Read More
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Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1990
Price: $5.50
George Bean always wants to play on the roof of his apartmentbuilding. But only his older sister Anna can sit there, because she's writing a roof poem. Anna may be the first Bean to be in a book if the poem wins a contest at school.
George decides to write a roof... Read more >
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Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $5.50
George Bean always wants to play on the roof of his apartmentbuilding. But only his older sister Anna can sit there, because she's writing a roof poem. Anna may be the first Bean to be in a book if the poem wins a contest at school.
George decides to write a roof... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $10.00
When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust.
Meanwhile Pap... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $10.00
A dangerous coyote is surely no match for Junior Blossom. He sets out to build the best trap ever and win the big reward! However, Junior’s inventions aren’t exactly known for their success. A malfunction sets off a series of events that leaves Junior trapped far from home in a place... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $10.00
For the Blossom family it's the best day of their lives -- and the worst. Maggie, out west with her mother, is about to become the newest Blossom on the rodeo circuit. And now that the rain has finally stopped, Junior can at last visit his friend Mad Mary in her... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $10.00
Junior Blossom has finally created the ultimate invention--the Green Phantom. It's big, black, Day-Glo green, and it's beautiful! All it needs is the secret ingredient.
The whole family makes a promise to ensure that Junior's invention will be a success, a Blossom promise that can never be broken.
Family and friends gather to... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 23, 2008
Price: $10.00
When Junior brings home the classroom hamster, Scooty, he decides to build the best hamster tunnel ever. But when Scooty goes missing, all evidence points to Mud. In the meantime, Mad Mary is missing, too–although Maggie and Ralphie find her bag and cane near the highway. Have Scooty and Mad Mary... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 13, 2005
Price: $11.00
For aspiring writer Amen McBee, life at the end of the nineteenth century with her four older sisters (Augusta, Abigail, and the "Bellas," twins Annabella and Arabella) is full of adventure. The only trouble in Amen's life is Mr. Tominski, the strange old man who lives in the woods and keeps... Read more >
