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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.

Beverly Cleary

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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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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School Thinking Two
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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

I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.

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