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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

Beverly Cleary

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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School Thinking Two
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes

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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