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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Beverly Cleary

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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
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
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
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
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
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

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