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Betsy Ray is a bright and imaginative young girl living with her family near Deep Valley School in Minnesota. As she begins her senior year, her excitement is doubled when Joe Willard, a boy she has admired all her life, returns from a summer job in North Dakota. With his charming words and a promise of a future together, Betsy feels hopeful that love may finally find its way into her teenage life.
But just as a new chapter seems inevitable, Tony Markham, a longtime best friend, walks into Betsy's world with his own romantic feelings. Now Betsy faces a dilemma: choose the love she imagines or protect the friendship she has cherished. Through schoolyard conversations, summer afternoons, and late‑night confessions, Betsy must decide whether to pursue a budding romance or preserve a deep friendship in the twilight of high‑school life.
First publish date: 1948
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Maud Hart Lovelace
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