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  • I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

    "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.