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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

Beverly Cleary

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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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

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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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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