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Nobody but a genuine grown-up was going to take her to school. If she had to, she would make a great big noisy fuss, and when Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of her family and the youngest person on her block.
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Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.
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Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...
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How can there be no such word as can't? Ramona wondered. Mrs. Rudge had just said can't. If there was so such word as can't then Mrs. Rudge could not have said there was no such word as can't. Therefore, what Mrs. Rudge said could not be true.
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Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV.
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Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.
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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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