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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Children's fiction
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Book 3 of the Betsy-Tacy series
180 pages · First published 1942
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are old enough to venture beyond their familiar neighborhood and become fascinated by the world on the other side of the Big Hill. Their explorations bring them into contact with new people and cultures, enlarging a childhood world that once seemed to end at the edge of Deep Valley. Curiosity sometimes outruns understanding, giving the girls opportunities to revise assumptions formed from limited experience. Maud Hart Lovelace’s third Betsy-Tacy novel combines friendship and adventure with the excitement of discovering that the wider world is both stranger and more interesting than expected.
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Ethnic prejudice and a period ethnic slur directed at Syrian/Lebanese immigrants; xenophobia; children travel away from home without permission; sibling conflict.
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