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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
Beverly Cleary
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Beverly Cleary
Age: 104 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 12
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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McMinnville
Oregon
Beverly Atlee Cleary
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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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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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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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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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