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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.

Beverly Cleary

If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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 Problem
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
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 Memories Mother
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 Writing
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting

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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