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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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
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 Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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 had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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
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
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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children

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