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Betsy Byars (1928–2020)

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Betsy Cromer Byars was born in1928. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. While she was in graduate school, she began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post and Look. Byars writes novels for young people. She is an expert at tapping in to the pain of adolescence, visa mer using bits of her own experience to flavor her characters. She is author of more than 60 books and has won numerous awards. Her book about a 14-year-old girl and her mentally retarded brother, The Summer of the Swans (1970), won the Newberry Award as the most distinguished contribution to children's literature that year. Other books include The 18th Emergency (1973), The TV Kid (1976), and After the Goat Man (1995). Betsy Byars died on February 26,2020 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Betsy Byars

The Summer of the Swans (1970) 4,353 exemplar
Tornado (1996) 1,703 exemplar
The Pinballs (1977) 1,177 exemplar
The Midnight Fox (1968) 1,117 exemplar
The Golly Sisters Go West (1985) 822 exemplar
Trouble River (1969) 716 exemplar
Wanted...Mud Blossom (1990) 612 exemplar
The Eighteenth Emergency (1973) 595 exemplar
The Cybil War (1981) 494 exemplar
The Not-Just-Anybody Family (1986) 488 exemplar
Cracker Jackson (1985) 434 exemplar
Keeper of the Doves (2002) 345 exemplar
The Cartoonist (1979) 300 exemplar
Hooray for the Golly Sisters! (1990) 296 exemplar
The Seven Treasure Hunts (1991) 290 exemplar
The SOS File (2004) 287 exemplar
The TV Kid (1976) 283 exemplar
The Computer Nut (1984) 273 exemplar
The House of Wings (1600) 268 exemplar
The Dark Stairs (1994) 250 exemplar
A Blossom Promise (1989) 247 exemplar
The Night Swimmers (1980) 242 exemplar
My Brother, Ant (1996) 240 exemplar
McMummy (1993) 225 exemplar
The Golly Sisters Ride Again (1994) 202 exemplar
After the Goat Man (1974) 201 exemplar
Blossoms and the Green Phantom (1987) 200 exemplar
My Dog, My Hero (2000) 186 exemplar
Dead Letter (1996) 173 exemplar
Guldfisken anfaller (1982) 168 exemplar
Skyll inte på Jimmie! (1979) 165 exemplar
Beans on the Roof (1988) 156 exemplar
The Moon and I (1992) 149 exemplar
Coast to Coast (1992) 139 exemplar
Disappearing Acts (1998) 106 exemplar
Ant Plays Bear (1996) 101 exemplar
Tarot Says Beware (1995) 100 exemplar
Me Tarzan (1821) 100 exemplar
Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover (1600) 93 exemplar
Glory girl (1750) 91 exemplar
Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance (1988) 91 exemplar
The winged colt of Casa Mia (1973) 91 exemplar
Death's Door (1997) 71 exemplar
Little Horse (2002) 69 exemplar
Rama the Gypsy Cat (1966) 61 exemplar
The Black Tower (2006) 53 exemplar
Go and Hush the Baby (1971) 46 exemplar
King of Murder (2006) 42 exemplar
Little Horse on His Own (2004) 34 exemplar
Boo's Dinosaur (2006) 33 exemplar
The Joy Boys (1996) 32 exemplar
The Lace Snail (1975) 20 exemplar
Boo's Surprise (2009) 18 exemplar
Growing Up Stories (1995) — Bidragsgivare; Redaktör — 11 exemplar
Top Teen Stories (2004) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
The dancing camel (1965) 4 exemplar
Clementine (1962) 4 exemplar
Bingo! (1989) 3 exemplar
Completely Wild Stories (1998) 3 exemplar
The Groober (1967) 2 exemplar
A Bean Birthday (1996) 2 exemplar
Best of Betsy Byars (1985) 1 exemplar

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Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 98 exemplar
Illustrated Treasury of Modern Literature for Children (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 61 exemplar
Love Stories (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar

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"Förra sommaren omkom Jimmies pappa i en gruvolycka och för Jimmie innebär det en svår tid av sorg, skuld och ångest. Han känner sig på något sätt skyldig till faderns död och han känner skräck för alla andra olyckor som kan tänkas inträffa. Allting inger honom rädsla och han upplever sig själv som feg. Det tar nästan ett år för honom att komma över det värsta och han börjar tro att den där fegisen har försvunnit för gott. Men en dag händer något som får fegisen att dyka upp igen."… (mer)
 
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Statistik

Verk
78
Även av
4
Medlemmar
20,383
Popularitet
#1,064
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
245
ISBN
991
Språk
10
Favoritmärkt
4
Proberstenar
146

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