This is another sweet, charming story about plucky Ramona Quimby and her family. Ramona is growing up, and starting to question her family dynamics, wondering if her mother loves her as much or in the same way as she loves Ramona's older sister Beezus. While Ramona strives to be the perfect daughter, she accidentally causes all sorts of mishaps which make her question her place in her family even more.
Beverly Cleary absolutely has a knack for getting in the skin of the young girl and touching on the emotions that so many kids, not just girls, share. I personally love the older Ramona books more, but there's little to criticize in any Beverly Cleary book. ( )

At the age of 7, with working parents and a sister, Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usually, she ends up behind every uproarious incident in the house. Whether she's dying herself blue, watching while her young neighbor flings Kleenex around the house, or wearing her soft new pajamas to school one day. Ramona's life is never dull. Through it all, she is struggling for a place in her mother's heart, worried that she might be unlovable but there's not a chance. Ramona Quimby is nothing if not lovable. ( )

The book is a good story of classic Ramona and her wild imagination. This book is more focused on her relationship with her mother. The audio part of the book is different that acutally reading the story, sometimes one forgets how easy it is to imagine yourself what the characters are doing. The audio allows for the added bonus of adding excitment or seriousness to the story. ( )

Ramona strives for and desires to be the apple of her mother's eye. Beezus, her sister, is the one always referred to as 'your mother's daughter', but Ramona wants that. After several mishaps along the way, Ramona doesn't realize how much her mother loves her until she packed her bags to run away and her mother told her how much she'd be missed. This would be a great read for any young classroom to read as a beginning chapter book.

I thought it was a book that should be read by everyone of all ages from every generation:}