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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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
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
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
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 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
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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