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  <title><![CDATA[A Girl from Yamhill]]></title>
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  <default_description>Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>A Girl from Yamhill</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beverly Cleary]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 16:15:15 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have started DD age 8 reading the Ramona books and while buying those I found this autobiography of Beverly Cleary.  I didn't know she was an Oregonian.  My MIL says Ms. Cleary frequently was a guest at the state fair and other places.  Certainly an author I remember from my childhood.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a disappointment this book turned out to be!  It's a memoir of the early years of Beverly Cleary, writer of the Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins stories for children.  I was always a big Ramona fan in particular, but loved just about anything I read by Cleary.<br/><br/>A co-worker loaned me th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66892638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 02 10:16:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If memory serves, I started to read this when it came out in 1988, but was deterred by the sad fact that to my 12-year-old self, Beverly Cleary was passe (when I had moved on to much more adult things, you know, like V.C. Andrews) and by a central character less compelling than Emily Bartlett, Leigh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76348098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clearly written in a comfortable tone, Beverly Cleary tells the story of her childhood. Her writing is warm and friendly, and it's interesting. I especially enjoyed reading about events in her life that I recognized from her books. She tells about good times without making everything rosy and perfec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43600954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54224057">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 28 06:37:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been a Beverly Cleary fan since about the third grade.  That's been 40 years.  When A Girl From Yamhill came out, I rushed to buy it in hard cover.  I wasn't disappointed.<br/><br/>Beverly's mother is like a couple of my older female relatives.  Appearances were important, and they want the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54224057">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing isn't great, but the story is pretty interesting. It felt to me like someone taking notes from their notes. There's a lot of parts that read like &quot;and that Saturday, Jane invited me to her house. We had fun.&quot; Informative, yes. Interesting... not always. <br/><br/>BUT it is a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21468565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70924475">
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 11 22:05:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not like this book because as I interpreted it was only about financial problems and how Beverly Cleary's family dealt with them. I did not think that the book was that much about her and her life growing up. The beginning of the book was much better then the end of it and it had more to do ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70924475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67112996">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Beverly Cleary's books as a kid, and this one has been on my TBR list for quite a while.  It details her childhood growing up in Oregon during the Depression.  Some of the pictures of her as a child look just as I always imagined &quot;Ramona&quot; to look.  Parts of her high school experien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67112996">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 15 22:19:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. I was never fond of the Ramona books, but A girl from Yamhill explains Beverly Cleary's life from when she was 2 till she was a author. I also liked it because she lived in Portland for awhile so she would talk about places that I have been or heard of. Over all I didn't wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71378501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first part of Beverly Cleary's memoirs.  This tells of her growing up years and the struggles she had with her perfectionist mom. Makes me thankful for my easy-going mom.  This was worth reading if you are a fan of juve. fiction and the popular Ramona and Henry Huggins books.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="76852241">
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book may have a limited audience:  Those interested in Beverly Cleary, or those interested in the 1st half of the 20th century in Oregon.  That said, it was really interesting to me, and I whipped on through it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me while to get into this one but ended up loving it.  A nice story of B. Cleary's everyday life, growing up in Portland.  I enjoyed the history of Portland and also got an interesting look at education in the 1930s.]]></body>
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    <review id="73937915">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is relentlessly quotidian and often repetitive, but the whole affair is saved by Beverly Cleary's characteristic eye for respectfully capturing the everyday affair of childhood and growing up. The trivialities and childhood angst worked, I thought, better as children's fiction than memoir,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73937915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47979614">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simple, yet complex.  The life of Beverly Cleary seemed typical, but she yearned for more....love, connection, learning. It was fun to find the source of some of her characters in her children's book series.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did a book report on this book in school.  This was years ago, I'm talking about card catalog years ago.  I was entertained, wrote an entertaining report, and got an &quot;A.&quot;  I wonder if she's still alive.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Beverly Cleary's classic stories for children so I found this peek into her childhood fasinating. She is a spunky, Ramona type girl, full of life and fun. ]]></body>
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    <review id="73868540">
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been years since reading this book but I have read it several times. I really loved it, it is an autobiography about the early life of the author Beverly Cleary. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting read. Beverly Cleary's life was quite different from what you might imagine from the author of Ramona Quimby.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grew up with Ramona Quimby and Henry Higgins. I loved those books so much as a child I even wrote Beverly Cleary a letter. I was thrilled with the generic postcard that was sent as a response. I was even more thrilled to find her memoir as a teenager. Her story of growing up is told very simply an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25193266">more...</a>]]></body>
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