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Beverley O'Connor (born 13 November 1960) is an Australian journalist and television and radio presenter. For ten years, she hosted The World on ABC News . O'Connor was born in South Africa and studied journalism in Johannesburg .
The Ramona books are a series of eight humorous children's novels by Beverly Cleary that center on Ramona Quimby, her family and friends. The first book, Beezus and Ramona, appeared in 1955. The final book, Ramona's World, was published in 1999. Two books in the series were named Newbery Honor books, Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Floomie is a young girl noteworthy throughout her hometown of Pitchfork, Oregon for her great imagination and for the predicaments that she inadvertently manages to create, such as by intoxicating her father's pigs by feeding them rotten apples in order to avoid a chiding from her mother for wasting food, using Clorox to bleach a plow horse white in order to impress a visiting cousin, and ...
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The novel was well received. [4] Entertainment Weekly ' s Leah Greenblatt gave the novel an "A−" rating, describing it as "a sharp, thoughtful read". [5] Publishers Weekly concluded that, "Simultaneously a page-turner and a book one has to put down occasionally to think about and absorb, Moriarty’s novel challenges the reader as well as her characters, but in the best possible way."
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. [2]
Wise Blood began with four separate stories published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949.. Originally committed to Rinehart & Company, O'Connor's agent and Robert Giroux convinced Rinehart to release the novel, and it was published as a complete novel by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1952. [4]