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Title: Betsy and the Boys
Author: Carolyn Haywood
Narrator: Stina Nielson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-13-05
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
Carolyn Haywood's Betsy series has become a timeless classic. She cleverly depicts amusing situations in which children develop lasting relationships including the fourth-grade adventures of Betsy and Billy. The boys decide to form a football team, but they have a big problem: no football! And, they have no money to buy one. They don't want any girls on the team, but Betsy has a plan for changing their minds. The team is pretty desperate, but Betsy saves the game. Through it all, Betsy and Billy remain the best of friends.
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Members Reviews:
They instilled in me a love of reading great stories and I still love them ...
Carolyn Haywood's Betsy books were the first novels that I read as a little girl. I still remember checking them out at the school library and reading them a home. They instilled in me a love of reading great stories and I still love them today.
Sweet
A great series for children. My daughter and son love these books. They are wholesome and perfect for ten years and under.
Betsy books are awesome!
I remember the Betsy Book series from when I was a child. It made me so happy that my little girl got hooked on them just like I did. She can't put them down. Good wholesome fun.
A young female football player in 1945!
Betsy and the Boys is Carolyn Haywood's fourth book about Betsy. Now in the fourth grade, Betsy has become fast friends with Billy Porter. When the Wilson brothers invite Billy, but not Betsy, to join their football team, Betsy's feelings are hurt.
The boys' football is so ancient and battered that air won't stay in it, and they plan to earn a new one by selling twenty-four cakes of mail-order flea soap. Meanwhile, sympathetic Mr. Kilpatrick, the neighborhood police officer, gives Betsy his son's old football, but tells her to keep it hidden until the Wilson boys allow her to join the team.
The soap selling scheme fails, and when Betsy kindly offers the boys her football, they invite her to join the team. Betsy happily plays football until the rough play begins to destroy her clothing. Instead of forbidding Betsy to play, her concerned parents buy their daughter a pair of ice skates and arrange skating lessons that conflict with the football games.
Betsy retires from the team and gives the football to Billy. The oldest Wilson boy, Rudy, is so jealous that he takes revenge with a cruel Valentine prank that nearly destroys Betsy and Billy's friendship.
This lovely addition to the Betsy series marks the first appearance of Little Eddie Wilson, who went on to star in his own series of books. This book has aged remarkably well, and the adults in the book are refreshingly supportive of Betsy's quest to play football.
Because this book was published in 1945, young readers will probably not understand why Mr. and Mrs. Porter are unhappy when Betsy and Billy use the family's last stick of butter (one quarter pound) to make cream puffs. The United States was in the midst of World War II, but other than this oblique reference to food rationing (and Mr.