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

Beverly Cleary

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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Girl Interesting Waiting
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
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
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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
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
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
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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading

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