![]() ![]() ![]() Trios are much trickier, at twelve.) The new girl is dazzlingly beautiful, a cloud of red curls, glamorous, dazzling, a wee bit manic and everyone including Sarah is smitten-except Katie, who sees through Melanie’s stories. (Then again, B-T and Tib were around six in that book. Thick as thieves, a regular Betsy-Tacy pair, but the arrival of a new girl in their midst doesn’t work out quite as well as when Tib shows up. ![]() I don’t remember what age I was, maybe eleven? Story of two best friends, sixth graders, in Depression-era Oregon. It was a Scholastic Book Clubs book I’m sure that’s where I came across it. Illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman, you guys. Which leads me to believe that no one I know either on Twitter or here has heard of this book!Ĭan this be? Am I alone in my Sarah and Katie mini-obsession? People love to talk about their childhood books. Now, ordinarily the merest mention of any book on Twitter, let alone a childhood favorite, garners zillions of immediate and enthusiastic responses. I took my query to Twitter, too, and…crickets. This is purely a curiosity itch I can’t wait to scratch. The other day I mentioned I’ve been meaning to write a post about the 1972 middle-grade novel Sarah and Katie by Dori White. ![]()
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