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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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 Problem
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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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Children Inspiring Mother
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
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
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

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