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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

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Seventh

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Grow Up
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Inspiring
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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Two
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Strict
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Happy Readers
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Stories
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Growing
I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.

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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Know Works
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Real
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Years
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful

In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

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