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Author: Jerry Spinelli
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  1. Jerry Spinelli _ Eggs

    Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.
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  2. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
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  3. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.
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  4. Jerry Spinelli _ Milkweed

    Some nights, we were a city of two.
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  5. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line.
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  6. Jerry Spinelli _ Love, Stargirl

    Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers."It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.
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  7. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
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  8. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
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  9. Jerry Spinelli _ Maniac Magee

    His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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  10. Jerry Spinelli _ Love, Stargirl

    You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
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  11. Jerry Spinelli _ Stargirl

    The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me.
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  12. Jerry Spinelli _ Love, Stargirl

    As we meandered, she said my name three times:"Stargirl?""Yes?""That was better than TV.""It was.""Stargirl?""Yes?""Does the sun do that everyday?""Yes.""Stargirl?""Yes?""Everyday is sun day.
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