When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.

From the Publisher: Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it's the greatest day of her life. So why is she sitting on the bench while the rest of the students play the game gray duck? Laughs and minor upsets abound in an enormously popular story starring the one and only Ramona Quimby!

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.

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...

"Henry Huggins and his friends Robert and Murph have been working hard to build a clubhouse of their very own--one in which they can be safe from neighborhood pest Ramona Quimby. But Ramona not only refuses to pay attention to the phrase "No Girls Allowed," she almost ruins Henry's paper route--and his newspaper career. Something has to be done about this neighborhood nuisance!"--Back cover.

Beezus keeps busy following her younger sister around and trying to prevent trouble, and the family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.