Books like Betsy's busy summer by Carolyn Haywood

Follow Betsy, Billy, and their classmates as they navigate the everyday adventures of second‑grade life, learning together through a variety of school activities.

Judith Arnold: Daddy's Girl Sometimes a father and his daughter have things to work out. Sometimes a woman can help, as widower Kevin Medina learns when he and one-year-old Alex meet Natalie Baines. Can Natalie be the mother Alex needs -- and the wife Kevin wants? Muriel Jensen: Home, Hearth, and Holly Bart Megrath has never been to a quaint colonial town like Maple Hill, Massachusetts. He's never been through a hurricane. And he's never met anyone like Haley Whitcomb. Stormy times...a stormy relationship at times. But in Bart's opinion, a little turbulence makes life a lot more interesting. Bobby Hutchinson: Temperature's Rising Dr. James Burke has a reputation as the best surgeon at St. Joseph's -- and the most difficult. Hospital administrator Melissa Clayton discovers that his reputation for both is well deserved. She also discovers that she's attracted to him. Strongly attracted. No wonder the heat in the hospital isn't just from the weather outside!

Betsy navigates her first year of school while dreaming of summer adventures at her grandfather’s farm.

Hannah’s sunny beach day turns puzzling when her first‑grade teacher, Mrs. Connor, appears in a bathing suit, just like any other kid. A light‑hearted tale that follows Hannah as she uncovers why her teacher is unusually relaxed on the shore.

When Miranda, now in her late thirties, returns to the Cornwall coast she must confront the memory of a teenage holiday that altered her life and her stepfather’s dying wish to be buried at sea.