Betty Baird's Ventures: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Betty Baird's Ventures, credited to Anna Hamlin Weikel, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Betty Baird's Ventures by Anna Hamlin Weikel. Read in English by Holly Jenson Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is having trouble paying the mortgage, she decides to spread her entrepreneurial wings and help with the family finances. But can a young girl in 1907 earn enough money to make a difference? Does Betty have the spirit and determination to stick with her plans, even when others try to discourage her? ( Holly Jenson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Betty Baird's Ventures
• Author credits: Anna Hamlin Weikel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 6:37:35

Catalogue topics

• boarding school
• young adult fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - ' In Tight Papers' — 20:45
2. 02 - 'My Mother's Cookery Journal' — 19:27
3. 03 - Merrylegs — 9:15
4. 04 - The Clammerboy — 15:38
5. 05 - Lois Byrd's Coming — 13:50
6. 06 - Pickles — 9:33
7. 07 - Betty — 17:01
8. 08 - A New Scheme and a Dory Race — 14:06
9. 09 - Betty and Craig — 11:05
10. 10 - A Returned Manuscript — 9:07
11. 11 - Preserves — 25:13
12. 12 - The Auction — 18:32
13. 13 - ' We Regret' — 15:40
14. 14 - Betty Visits 'Uncle' Goldstein' — 19:30
15. 15 - Edwyna From the West — 15:50
16. 16 - Miss Hunt's Missionary Lover — 13:16
17. 17 - The New Librarian and Her President — 9:12
18. 18 - 'Shockingly Young' — 16:20
19. 19 - In the Tea-Room — 13:43
20. 20 - Phosphorescence — 7:56
21. 21 - Mary Livingstone-King's Plan — 19:27
22. 22 - In the Study — 13:26
23. 23 - Betty Meets Miss Minturne — 16:47
24. 24 - The Unknown Bidder — 18:02

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