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  1. Sharon Creech _ Walk Two Moons

    It seems to me that we can't explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can't fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn't as awful as it had at first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind. I
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  2. Sharon Creech _ Bloomability

    And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she'll see that it isn't all she imagined. She'll be different, but they'll all expect her to be the same.
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  3. Sharon Creech _ The Boy on the Porch

    Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be.
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  4. Sharon Creech _ Heartbeat

    I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.
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  5. Sharon Creech _ Walk Two Moons

    My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The
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  6. Sharon Creech _ The Unfinished Angel

    Zola smills, smuggles, what is that word? What is it, that word for the happy teeth??
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  7. Sharon Creech _ Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

    I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy.
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  8. Sharon Creech _ Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

    I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me. -Rosie
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  9. Sharon Creech _ The Great Unexpected

    I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot.
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  10. Sharon Creech _ Bloomability

    She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things.
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  11. Sharon Creech _ Heartbeat

    Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
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  12. Sharon Creech _ The Great Unexpected

    A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.
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