Beverly Cleary

A story that hits the high and low points of a working mother's life as seen from Ramona's seven-and-a-half-year-old viewpoint. Ramona sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.

In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. Strider has a new habit. Whenever we stop, he places his paw on my foot. It isn't an accident because he always does it. I like to think he doesn't want to leave me. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run because...

Emily decides that the town of Pitchfork needs a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen. Can she make her dream come true?

All Henry Huggins wants is his very own bicycle, a shiny red one to ride up and down Klickitat Street. But no matter how Henry tries to raise money for the bike of his dreams--from selling bubble gum to delivering newspapers--he always ends up with too much trouble and not enough money. But Henry's old friend Beezus has an idea that may turn Henry's worst trouble yet into a real business success!

At last, Henry's father has promised to take him fishing, on one condition. Henry's dog, Ribsy, has been in all sorts of trouble lately. To go on the fishing trip, Henry must keep Ribsy out of trouble for a month: no chasing cats, no digging up lawns...and no getting anywhere near little Ramona --the pest of Klickitat Street.

Henry Huggins can't wait until he turns eleven years old, so he can have a paper route like his friend Scooter McCarthy. Henry wants to prove to the route manager that he is responsible enough to handle the job right now. Will Ramona Quimby, making a real pest of herself, help Henry get the job he wants so much?

For Henry Huggins and his friends Robert and Murph, a clubhouse is a place where they can do as they please, without being bothered by girls. The sign that says NO GIRLS ALLOWED -- THIS MEANS YOU especially means Ramona Quimby. Lately Ramona has been following Henry on his newspaper route, embarrassing him in front of Henry's customers. The day Ramona follows Henry to the clubhouse, she wants to teach him girls aren't so bad, but she almost puts an...

Henry Huggins feels like nothing exciting ever happens on Klickitat Street--until one day when a friendly dog walks up to Henry, outside an ice cream shop, and looks pleadingly at his cone. From that moment on, Henry and his new dog, Ribsy, are inseparable. Beginning with trouble on the bus trip home that leads to a thrilling ride in a police car, Ribsy ensures that Henry will never have another dull moment. Together, Henry and Ribsy cause more excitement...

Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp. The rousing notes of the bugle and the laughter and shouting increased the feeling of rebellion within Ralph. As the last strains of the bugle call hovered in the clear mountain air, Ralph made up his mind. He knew now what he was going to do. He was going to run away. Fed up with his timid mother and uncle and his squirmy little cousins, Ralph hops onto his toy motorcycle...