Beverly Cleary

Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works.

Beezus' biggest problem was her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knew sisters were supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seemed impossible.

Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class.

Good ol Ribsy's ever-curious mind has always gotten him into scrapes, but this time he may have gone too far. After a comical turn of events, Ribsy finds himself in the wrong station wagon with the wrong children. Ribsy will do anything to find Henry, but there's plenty of excitement to be had along the way and scoring a touchdown for a local high school team is only part of the fun!

Henry Huggins picks up a stray dog, names him Ribsy and sets out on numerous adventures with him, including breeding hundreds of fish and collecting over a thousand worms.

Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.

Presents not only Henry Huggins himself but many other familar friends. Chief among them is Beezus who, though only a girl, is so sensible that Henry really enjoys being with her. The same cannot be said of her little sister Ramona, whose alarmingly accurate memory of what she sees on televison torments them all. Scowling ferociously and pointing straight at Henry, Ramona says with horrid glee, "Remember! Only you can prevent forest fires." Fortunately,...

Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her.

Henry Huggins gets carried away with his own ambitions when he longs for a paper route of his own, and gets some unexpected help from the irrespressible and inescapable Ramona Quimby.