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You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Polly Horvath

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

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Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

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When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

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No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

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Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath

Born: January 30, 1957 (age 67)

Bio: Polly Horvath is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults. She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Known for:

Everything on a Waffle (2001)
The Canning Season (2003)
My One Hundred Adventures (2008)
Trolls (1999)
The Pepins and their problems (2004)

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