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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

~Patricia Polacco

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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

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I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

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My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

~Patricia Polacco

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 11th, 1944

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