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EDWARD TULANE
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That way, if my mama ever came back, I could recognize her, and I would be able to grab her and hold on to her tight and not let her get away from me again.
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cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on
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his dress
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At the concession stand, Leroy Ninker said, "Thank you very much!" He said, "Extra butter on that?" He also said, "Yippie-i-oh." Leroy Ninker said "Yippie-i-oh" because Leroy Ninker had a dream. He wanted to be a cowboy. On Wednesday nights, the Bijou Drive-In Theater ran a Western double feature, and Leroy Ninker stood and watched in wonder as the great white expanse of the Bijou screen filled with purple mountains, wide-open plains, and c..
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Beauchamp
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orange chest-hair
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cynic,
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smiled back. Winn-Dixie
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He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.
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song
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Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.
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Stories are light
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ONCE, IN A HOUSE ON EGYPT STREET, there lived a rabbit who was made almost entirely of china. He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement. His ears were made of real rabbit fur, and beneath the fur, there were strong, bendable wires, which allowed the..
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You, friend, are on a quest." "I don't know what that is," said Despereaux. "You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand."
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Kate DiCamillo |
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It's hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Mostly, he looked like a big piece of old brown carpet that had been left out in the rain.
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.
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Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise. Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.
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outward-appearances
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You some pair,
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Where's your dress?
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A SUPERHERO SQUIRREL RESTED AT HER FEET, AND SO SHE WAS NOT LONELY AT ALL emblazoned
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Flora had decided that this was part of the reason her parents had divorced. Not the noise of the writing, but the writing itself. Specifically, the writing of romance. Flora
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There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?"
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And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.
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trust
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HE IS AN UNASSUMING JANITOR. BUT HE WILL DARE TO BATTLE THE DARKNESS OF THE UNIVERSE. DO YOU DOUBT HIM? DO NOT. ALFRED T. SLIPPER WILL LIVE TO FIGHT THE FORCES OF EVIL. HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS INCANDESTO! Flora
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HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy
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The three of them walked through the woods in silence. Sistine and Rob chewed Eight Ball gum,
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Kate DiCamillo |
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To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not
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away from the car.
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and finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.
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It's different for everyone she said, you find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.
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Words for Flora Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it -- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny - side up -- you are the ever - expanding universe to me.
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Kate DiCamillo |
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Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.
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Kate DiCamillo |
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she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. "Have you lost your"
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Words for Flora Nothing would be easier withou you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts,eggs sunny side up you are the ever expanding universe to me.
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love
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tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be. When I told Gloria Dump about Otis and how he got arrested, she laughed so hard she had to grab hold of her false teeth so they wouldn't fall out of her mouth.
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Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying.
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But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
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READER, you
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She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble
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words
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King Phillip and his Queen Rosemary
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End of the First Book
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to the woman
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Winn-Dixie
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