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- Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place…
- I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to…
- Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
- If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,…
- What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual…
- What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring…
- When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually…
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