Emily of Deep Valley - Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville • BookLikes (ISBN:0064408582)

Emily of Deep Valley

by: Maud Hart Lovelace (author) Vera Neville (author)

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Welcome back to Deep Valley!Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. The gulf between Emily and her classmates widens even more when they graduate from Deep Valley High School in 1912. Emily longs to go off to college with everyone else, but she can't leave her grandfather.Emily resigns herself to facing a "lost winter," but soon decides to stop feeling sorry for herself. And with a new program of study, a growing interest in the Syrian community, and handsome new teacher at the high school to fill her days, Emily gains more than she ever dreamed...In addition to her beloved Betsy-Tacy books, Maud Hart Lovelace wrote three more stories set in the fictional town of Deep Valley: Winona's Pony Cart, Carney's House Party, and Emily of Deep Valley. Longtime fans and new readers alike will be delighted to find the Deep Valley books available again for the first time in many years.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780064408585 (0064408582)

Publish date: December 31st 2000

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages no: 304

Edition language: English

Category:

Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Literature, Juvenile, American, Historical Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics

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Melody Murray's Books rated it

13 years ago

http://satyridae.booklikes.com Melody Murray's Books 4.0 Emily of Deep Valley: A Deep Valley Book (P.S.)

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I always say I don't like this book, and it's one of the few in the series I have not read countless times. This time through, I wanted to analyze that assertion, and I can say with conviction that I like the book just fine. It's Emily I don't like. There's very little I find congenial about her, an...

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BBB - Bronwyn's Book Blog rated it

13 years ago

http://nzfriend.booklikes.com BBB - Bronwyn's Book Blog 5.0

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This had everything I love in an old/er book. Emily was so relatable; her successes and failures were like your own; she was sort of a plain Jane, but not overly so; and she wound up happy. All of the other characters were so lovely too. Grandpa, Cab, even Don and Annette, and of course Jed. The...

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florinda3rs rated it

15 years ago

http://florinda3rs.booklikes.com florinda3rs 5.0

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While characters from Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series make guest appearances in this novel, Emily of Deep Valley stands on its own; perhaps that's why I'd never read it until now, although I've read nearly all of the author's other books multiple times. This is genuinely a case of "better lat...

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