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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

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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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

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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