Beverly Cleary eBooks 29本My Own Two Feet - A Memoir.pdf简介：
BEVERLY CLEARYMY OWN TWO FEETA MemoirContentsPart I� Friends, Hopes, Exams3Bus Trip to a New Life19A New Family, an Old House30Chaffey, Where the Fronded Palm…43Fun and Family��Desperation and Inspiration8�Life with a P.E. Major114Cooperation131Fun at Cal14�My Intellectual Life1�4Two Vacations1��Clarence and the ComprehensivePart II� Children, Customers, Soldiers�0�Library School���A Job and a Wedding��4The Sather Gate Book Shop���I Meet the Army�91My War with the Army3�0A House, a Cat, a LetterAbout the Author�Other Books by Beverly Cleary�CoverPhotographic Insert IIPhotographic Insert III Photographic Insert IV Photographic Insert ICopyrightAbout the PublisherPART ONEFriends,Hopes,ExamsBus Trip to a New LifeThe three of us, Mother, Dad, and I, stood on thesidewalk outside the Greyhound bus station in Port-�land, Oregon, searching for words we could not find�or holding back words we could not speak. The sun,�bron�e from the smoke of September forest fires, cast�an illusory light. Nothing seemed real, but it was. I�was leaving, actually leaving, for California, the�Golden State, land of poppies, big red geraniums,�trees heavy with oranges, palm trees beneath cloudless�skies, and best of all, no Depression. I had seen it all�on postcards and in the movies, and so had the rest�of my class at Grant High School. California was the�goal of many. John Steinbeck had not yet, in 1934, re-�vised our thinking.3And now I was one of the lucky ones going to thisglorious place where people made movies all day anddanced the night away. I was escaping the clatter of�typewriters in business school and going instead to�college. As I stood there in the smoky light in my neat�navy blue dress, which Mother had measured a fash��ionable twelve inches from the floor when I made it,�and with a five�dollar bill given to me by my father�for emergencies rolled in my stocking, I tried to hide�my elation from my parents.Dad, I know, was sad to see his only child leavehome, but the decision had 展开>>

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