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ea309bb 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. Beverly Cleary
78afe76 If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. spelling librarians Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary
d953997 Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just as should mean to stick tacks in people. Beverly Cleary
81f7681 She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. fifteen me Beverly Cleary
49e6fa7 Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language. Beverly Cleary
72554f6 All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake beverly cleary
d3258b8 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. love fifteen humiliation manners etiquette dating regret boys Beverly Cleary
5d316c6 I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus." Beverly Cleary
9cf61a6 After Father had served the chicken and mashed potatoes and peas and Mother had passed the hot rolls, Beezus decidedthe time had come to tell Aunt Beatrice about being Sacajawea. "Do you know what I did last week?" she began. "I want some jelly," said Ramona "You mean, 'Please pass the jelly,' "corrected Mother while Beezus waited patiently. 'No, what did you do last week?" asked Aunt Beatrice. "Well, last week I-" Beezus began again. " lik.. Beverly Cleary
3743ccb 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. Beverly Cleary
0cd0793 I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right. love growing-up Beverly Cleary (Author)
d52eb29 I am sort of medium...I guess you could call me the mediumest boy in the class. -Leigh Botts Beverly Cleary
9ee7414 Once more Jane sat staring at the telephone. This time she was filled with a confidence that was new to her. Stan Crandall. Stanley Crandall. He liked her! He had seen her once, and even though had been rumpled and grass-stained and having a terrible time with Sandra, he liked her well enough to go to the trouble of finding out her name and calling to ask her to go to the movies. Jane smiled at the telephone and gave a sigh of happiness Beverly Cleary
5a38d0f She was surprised to feel his hand on her arm and still more surprised-almost unbelieving-to see his fingers unclasp his identification bracelet and remove it from his arm. Silently he fumbled with the bracelet and slipped it around her right wrist. with a tiny click he snapped the clasp shut. Jane gave a gasp of astonishment and turned questioning to Stan. She was wearing his identification bracelet! The silver links on her wrist were stil.. bracelet fifteen Beverly Cleary
a115b1b And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started. Beverly Cleary
e99efc5 He seemed grown-up, compared to the boys at school, and although he was not handsome, or even particularly good-looking--there were still some scars on his face from the skin trouble he had when he was younger--his face was agreeable because it was so. . . . What the word? Kind, perhaps. Or gentle. But strong, too. He was genuinely glad to see all of Sue's family, and when Sue entered the room and he helped her on with her coat, Jean thou.. Beverly Cleary
ec6e2b2 most beautiful, magic time of the whole year. Her parents loved her, and she loved them, Beverly Cleary
21ee46f She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world. Beverly Cleary
cc803a9 Ralph really felt sorry for the boy, hampered as he was by his youth and his mother. Beverly Cleary
0e52a9b He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date find-in-a-boy fifteen Beverly Cleary
204ced4 Love isn't like a cup of sugar that gets used up, Beverly Cleary
ec7fc00 Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan fifteen Beverly Cleary
a8ba9e2 If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different fifteen Beverly Cleary
4100620 Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!" Beverly Cleary
0963391 Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. "I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered. "So am I." fiction romance love fifteen girl dating teen Beverly Cleary
a90600a Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name fifteen Beverly Cleary
434974c I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night." fifteen Beverly Cleary
323d8de This morning the sun was shining, so Barry and I mailed my letter to Mr. Henshaw and then walked over to see if there were still any butterflies in the grove. We only saw three or four, so I guess most of them have gone north for the summer. Then we walked down to the little park at Lovers Point and sat on a rock watching sailboats on the bay for a while. When clouds began to blow in we walked back to my house. Beverly Cleary
d33c281 Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King," Beverly Cleary
2d144ea If you don't see the book you want on the shelf write it. Beverly Cleary
38e7e76 attention. Beverly Cleary
b4e2252 Emily was lucky in many ways. She was lucky in the house she lived in, a house with three balconies, a cupola, banisters just right for sliding down, and the second bathtub in Yamhill County. Beverly Cleary
81c5c0f davenport Beverly Cleary
bce961f 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. Beverly Cleary
825e4f4 And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands. Beverly Cleary
26271d2 Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come. She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all. Beverly Cleary
32ddee4 Girl Snouts." "We are not," contradicted Sarah. "We're Girl Scouts." "Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," counted Mrs. Collins, who was the jolly type and did not understand how parents sometimes embarrass their children. Down the hill marched the class. Mitchell felt Bernadette's toe on his heel again and jumped in time." Beverly Cleary
ef5f324 bags and boxes across the hot parking lot to the van. On the way back to the mall, Willa Jean, who spotted the ice-cream store that sold fifty-two flavors, told her uncle she needed an ice-cream cone. Uncle Hobart agreed that ice-cream cones were needed by all. Inside the busy shop, customers had to take numbers and wait turns. Ramona, responsible for Willa Jean, who could not read, was faced with the embarrassing task of reading aloud the .. Beverly Cleary
02a858f Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that. Beverly Cleary
1e849d7 Daisy picked up the large, limp cat that was almost too heavy for her. "This is Clawed," she said. "C-l-a-w-e-d," she spelled. "Not like a man's name. My brother named him Clawed because he had been clawed by another cat when he found him hiding in a gutter. Daddy says he hopes Jeremy never finds a wounded skunk." Beverly Cleary
06e3a5e Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom. Beverly Cleary
1405c00 Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls. Beverly Cleary
2f0bb41 They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel, Beverly Cleary
6f0991f Mother," said Ramona urgently. This time she stepped into the hall. "Unless we get a ladder (Go back to your room, Ramona) and break the window so we can unlock it," Mother continued, speaking with one sentence inside another, the way grown-ups so often did with Ramona around. "But Mother," insisted Ramona even more urgently. "I have to--" "Oh, dear, I might have known," sighed Mother." Beverly Cleary
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