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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Booker T. Washington

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Librarian Valuable

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Strict
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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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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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
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 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 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
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
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
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Rooms
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Ships Years
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Only Child Sister
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

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