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Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? "We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house"
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the front, brushed her teeth, and went to bed
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MILLION
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PEAS
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Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous."
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The rainy winter days passed quickly. Thanksgiving came and not long afterward Christmas vacation. Ramona missed Daisy, who went with her family to visit her grandparents. When she returned, the girls spent an afternoon dressing up Roberta in the clothes she had received for Christmas. Roberta was agreeable to having a dress pulled over her head, her arms stuffed into a sweater, her head shoved into caps. She enjoyed the girls' admiration. ..
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annoying
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Miss Radar Feet.
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sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.
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is not me all over again, she thought fiercely. I was
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reprimand. In her class she once informed us that any girl who wore red was "asking for anything she got." Of course word spread throughout Chaffey. The next day every girl who owned a red dress, skirt, or blouse wore it to school. One"
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With gray thread Beezus carefully outlined the steam coming from the teakettle's spout and thought about her pretty young aunt, who was always so gay and so understanding. No wonder she was Mother's favorite sister. Beezus hoped to be exactly like Aunt Beatrice when she grew up. She wanted to be a fourth-grade teacher and drive a yellow convertible and live in an apartment house with an elevator and a buzzer that opened the front door. Beca..
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Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.
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Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth."
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carpet tickling the bottoms of their feet and their nosegays
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At first guests were amused by
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Conversation from the living room was boring, all
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glowered. "All right," he said, and raised his voice to a yell."
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That girl has been bad again," Ramona heard the four-year-old next door say to her little sister."
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RALPH S. MOUSE
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Mother--" began Ramona, leaning out into the hall. Mother paid no attention to her. "I just don't see what we can"
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perfectly all right with me.
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The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who used their dictionary skills and probably weren't any fun. Then
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minutes.
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And Don't Miss Beverly Cleary's Autobiography
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elevator and a buzzer that opened the front
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because
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did when her hair was washed. When Mother finished she
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birthday party,
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BUGLE
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Mother, what am I going to do?" Beezus demanded. "It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. they won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!" Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all."
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One day after school Henry Huggins, who lived
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Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.
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Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on.
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What's the use of having a motorcycle if you can't go tearing around staying out late?" Ralph asked reasonably."
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Ralph curled up on a heap of shredded Kleenex and took a good long nap. When he awoke refreshed, his first thought was of the motorcycle.
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