Beverly Cleary

Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.

Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.

Ramona has been waiting her whole life to start kindergarten, and now that she's here, she's determined to make her mark! So during quiet time, she pretends to snore to prove how good she is at resting. Then she yanks on prissy classmate Susan's curls because their boinginess is too tempting. But when a classmate calls Ramona a pest for her behavior, Ramona feels completely misunderstood. If she's started her school career off on the wrong foot, is...

Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing. The growing-up years in the Northwest of one of the greats of children's literature. Details the early life in the Northwest of one of the greats of children's literature. Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends,...

Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.

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.

A troublemaker meets his match when he pushes the quietest girl in the class too far.

Henry Huggins's dog Ribsy didn't mean to get lost in the huge shopping mall parking lot... but after a comical mix-up one rainy afternoon, he finds himself in the wrong station wagon with the wrong children. Now Ribsy's on a quest to find Henry, and home -- but there's plenty of excitement to be had before he gets there!

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.