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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

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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Patience Reading Teacher
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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
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
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
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

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