Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Betty's Happy Year

CHAPTER PAGE I. A Thanksgiving Guest 3 II. A Christmas Celebration 29 III. Betty at Boarding-school 52 IV. An Acceptable Valentine 75 V. The Palace of Time 98 VI. Betty’s Practical Joke 123 VII. The Green Paper Doll 148 VIII. The Chaplet of Honor 174 IX. An Independence Day Re...

Chapters

12. Part 12

Betty smiled at Dorothy’s postscript, and then she read the note over again. On the whole, she didn’t much care that the plans were changed, for a luncheon at a fine hotel and a...

7. Part 7

“I don’t know,” faltered Dorothy, “but—it must have been some other William Irving, then. But, please, can’t you find me some employment? I am greatly in need of it!”

4. Part 4

The hour in the drawing-room that followed was worse still. Had Betty only known it, her experience was not so very different from that of any new pupil at a strange school; for...

8. Part 8

“That’s very pretty, my dear,” said Mrs. Halstead herself, who had just stepped out on the veranda to summon the young people to dinner. And again Martha became embarrassed and...

11. Part 11

Again she rang the bell, and could hear for herself its long, buzzing ring. But nobody answered it, and though she felt sure everything would soon be all right, yet she began to...

5. Part 5

Behind the locked doors of her mother’s room, Betty carefully lifted the lovely thing from its tissue-papers, and exclaimed with delight at its beauty. It looked even prettier t...

9. Part 9

“And so,” went on Miss Whittier, “I have prepared full directions for each of you. Here are the envelopes for you all, and in your envelope you will each find the name of the ch...

2. Part 2

“No,” she said, with snapping eyes; “I’ll not have the English young lady making fun of our country games. I’ll give her as good as she has in her own country, and I’ll do the b...

10. Part 10

The Van Courts, too, who were one of the principal families of Greenborough, had agreed to lend all the assistance they could, and so the garden-party bade fair to be a great su...

6. Part 6

Martha was delighted with the plan Mr. Irving proposed, and, with the help of Miss Connington, the young lady who took the part of Autumn, she made ready for her November booth.

3. Part 3

“I must go in,” she said, “and I want Lisette to help me. But, if you wish, you four may go for a ride in the Park or along the Avenue. But you must promise not to get out of th...

1. Part 1

CHAPTER PAGE I. A Thanksgiving Guest 3 II. A Christmas Celebration 29 III. Betty at Boarding-school 52 IV. An Acceptable Valentine 75 V. The Palace of Time 98 VI. Betty’s Practi...

13. Part 13

And very becoming it proved. The skirt of scarlet silk was sprinkled with strange hieroglyphics and mystic signs which had been cut from black silk and pasted on. The pointed sc...