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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
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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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
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
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People

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