Carolyn Haywood

"Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm." --

Betsy and Billy are in the third grade and have a variety of adventures, good times, and scrapes!

Eddie finds a list of special days to celebrate and adventures escalate from there.

Deciding that his sleigh is too old to use for delivering presents, Santa Claus gets a helicopter but finds after several mishaps that his sleigh and reindeer are still the most reliable transportation.

The summer Eddie and his friend start a dog portrait business, he holds the subject and she paints the portrait, often with disastrous results.

The circus comes to town and Betsy's whole class is invited to go.

During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.

Whether seven-year-old Eddie is finding homes for a crowd of stray cats, picketing the baseball team that says he's too young to play, or collecting "valuable properties", his happy adventures are sure to win lots of friends.

Eddie returns from Texas with 'valuable property' - a parrot named Louella, a box marked 'Snakes, ' and another one marked 'Pay Dirt.'

Describes a winterhouse built by Betsy's father and located in the basement where Betsy and her friends never have a dull moment.