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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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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Book Giving Years
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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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Book Library Seventh

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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