Betty Cavanna

• 1945
• / General Fiction
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Because Judy recalled a postman's remark, she and her brother were able to solve the mystery of the mixed-up spaniel puppies....

• 1946
• / General Fiction
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A shy dreamer dares to shine Sixteen-year-old Julie dreams of becoming an artist. But that dream seems far away to a motherless girl, shy at school and lonely at home. When Julie is entrusted with the care of a prize collie, the love and pride she...

• 1947
• / General Fiction
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Oh, why couldn’t she go off to a summer place the way her friends did? Why couldn’t her family move to the suburbs? Why couldn’t she do what she wanted most -- ride horses? Why? -- Sue knows the owner. Her father is ill. Her mother must work. W...

• 1948
• / General Fiction
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EVERYONE IN HIGH SCHOOL WONDERED WHO WOULD WIN THE FREE FLYING LESSONS…‘Tomboy’ Loretta Larkin excels in sports, but privately envies her popular blonde high school classmate, Elsie Wynn. When the new local airport announces an essay contest wi...

• 1949
• / General Fiction
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A summer on Cape Cod! Kate Vale is looking forward to a dreary summer at home, when the chance comes to paint peasant furniture for Peter Hunt in his world famous shop on Cape Cod. Kate sets off joyously, convinced this will show her parents her d...

• 1950
• / General Fiction
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Sixteen year old Meg Sanderson was feeling lost and left out. Her three younger sisters were still children - much too young - and her older sister Joanna was eighteen, beautiful, popular and poised - everything Meg wanted to be and wasn't. So Me...

• 1951
• / General Fiction
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New Yorker Claire Farrell, literally following her favorite star in the person of a white-toothed young man of the theatre, visits her grandparents and gentle, charming aunt in their old home in Williamsburg, Virginia. Claire learns something about v...

• 1952
• / General Fiction
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Prudence Foster and Cecily Roundtree are cousins, but of very different backgrounds. Raised on a Texas cattle ranch, Prue comes to Pennsylvania when her father is transferred to a subsidiary of the ranch to do research on grass. This brings the Foste...

• Jan-1953
• / Romance
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UNWILLING STRAW BOSS When Craig Kent is called away on business, his unenthusiastic daughter, Laurie, is compelled not only to be interested in the new house they are building, but to make a lot of nerve-racking decisions about it. In the proce...

• 1954
• / General Fiction
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• 1955
• / General Fiction
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A Year to Remember… When the farewells were over and the huge liner Liberte was gliding out of New York harbor, Jody Scott, a slender girl of 15, stood at the railing, alone and uncertain, homesick for her father and friends. Jody was going t...

• 1956
• / General Fiction
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First Love Everyone in town took it for granted that Jane Howard was Ken Sanderson’s girl, but Jane felt that they were just good “pals.” The night Ken tried to show her that he was not at all happy with his unromantic role, Jane instinctive...

• Jan-1957
• / Romance
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LUCKY DIANE! At first, Diane hates the thought of missing all the hometown fun, but once aboard the beautiful liner that is to take her and her parents to Europe, excitement takes over. And what a trip! London, Paris, Geneva, Rome, and Italian ...

• Jun-1957
• / Contemporary Romance
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SKIING IS EVERYTHING TO ANGELA One look at the Vermont ski slopes, and Angela knows her life will never be the same. Skiing -- that magical world of snow and speed and excitement -- is going to be hers! It doesn't matter that she's never skied be...

• 1958
• / General Fiction
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Maggie, the teenage daughter of a famous entertainer, knows she has talent but lacks the professional training and poise necessary for a show business career of her own....

• 1959
• / General Fiction
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CAPE COD SUMMER Andrea Pierce, spending her summer vacation on Cape Cod, is given a scarlet-sailed Turnabout. But she doesn’t know how to manage a sail boat and, being uncertain of herself, she thinks she will never be able to learn. Then Mike...

• 1960
• / General Fiction
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To her complete bewilderment, Boston teenager Kathy McCall finds her normally affectionate, good-natured, older brother Jonathan beginning to treat her like pure poison. To make things worse, Jon’s hero Rad Cooper, a senior and editor of the school...

• 1961
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1963
• / General Fiction
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Victoria is always in the shadow of her youthful and attractive widowed mother until she heads north to boarding school outside Boston, Massachusetts. There, for the first time, she feels comfortable being smart, and even begins to date! But when her...

• 1964
• / General Fiction
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Being “different” can hurt! Alan Carlisle is the first boy Jenny has ever dated. “You’re different from American girls,” he tells her. “So gentle and calm.” But Jenny Kimura Smith -- half Japanese, half American -- so discovers th...

• 1965
• / Mystery
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When sixteen-year-old Chicago-bred Carlie Copeland is given an opportunity to spend a few weeks at her Uncle Ed’s cattle ranch in the remote Outback of Australia, she couldn’t be more thrilled. But when she arrives at Love’s Creek, Carlie is...

• 1967
• / General Fiction
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Mindy Hubbard lacked purpose, and so her seventeenth year was a time of drift and anxiety. Unaccepted by any college, she had no substitute plan of action to fall back on. Betty Cavanna who has an intuitive understanding of teen-agers, writes of this...

• Jan-1968
• / Suspense
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An exciting story set on a big plantation in 1859. Sally Brinton, Quaker, visits her cousin Dorothea in Richmond, and through her quick sympathies grasps the essentials of the upheaval in her relatives' lives as their home is about to pass into t...

• 1968
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1969
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1970
• / General Fiction
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"Amboseli, Kilaguni, Manyara, Serengeti -the places on the itinerary meant nothing to seventeen-year-old Kim Kimberly when she started out on safari in East Africa. Before she was to leave, however, the strange names would haunt her like the beat...

• Sep-1971
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1975
• / Historical
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LOVE AND WAR… At first the war seems like a glorious thing to sixteen-year-old Sarah. With the ruffle of drums and flags flying, there’s excitement everywhere. Sarah’s brother and father go off to fight, while she and her mother are left ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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The Emerald Buddha, twenty-four inches high and made of purest jade, presides like a fabulous toy over the magnificence of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The temple in which it sits on its elaborate throne is considered Thailand’s most revered shrin...

• Nov-1981
• / Suspense
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The beautiful hill town of Vezelay, a jewel in the Burgundy countryside of France, is the location of this atmospheric mystery. To this idyllic spot come an American girl and her family to claim their legacy of a small cottage left to them by a dista...

• 1987
• / General Fiction
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CINDY FOSTER’S IN LOVE Most sixteen-year-old girls are talking and thinking about boys, but Cindy Foster spends most of her free time at the stables with a beautiful horse named Banner. Then Cindy meets Tad, a newcomer to Martha’s Vineyar...