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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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Seventh

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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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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Rummage Sales
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Growing
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Real
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.

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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Child
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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Only Child Sister
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
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 Humilation Perhaps Turned
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Rooms
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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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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Waiting
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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
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

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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