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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Beverly Cleary

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
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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

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