I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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.
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
I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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...
Elevator and a buzzer that opened the front
If you don't see the book you want on the shelf write it.
I am sort of medium...I guess you could call me the mediumest boy in the class. -Leigh Botts
Conversation from the living room was boring, all
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
And now I’m going to find out how to get a library started.
Miss Radar Feet.
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...
Glowered. All right, he said, and raised his voice to a yell.
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.
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.
Mother— began Ramona, leaning out into the hall. Mother paid no attention to her. I just don’t see what we can
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...