He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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Real
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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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
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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Seventh
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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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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Happy Readers
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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Inspiring
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Child
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Known
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Classroom Grade
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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Algebra Mean
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 Humilation Perhaps Turned