Here, Ramona is portrayed as an anxious, curious young girl about to start kindergarten who is in a hurry to mature, although she frequently and unintentionally manages to annoy those around her: she tugs at a classmate's curls out of curiosity and winds up being suspended from school, she disrupts naptime for her fellow pupils while striving to earn the position of 'Wake-Up Fairy' for the day, and misunderstands the lyrics to the national anthem. Ramona saw her first major role when the author decided to focus on her viewpoint more than that of other characters in the book Ramona the Pest. She appears to be a very undisciplined young girl who gets away with terrible things she does, such as inviting her whole class to her house for a party without giving any notification to her family, or biting into many apples only once just for attention. Ramona Quimby lives in Portland, Oregon's Grant Park neighborhood on Klickitat Street.ĭuring her earlier appearances, Ramona was depicted as an imaginative but infuriating nursery schooler, the younger sister and best friend of Beatrice Quimby, who often insisted upon tagging along with her older sister and her friends, causing them agitation and sometimes even spoiling their fun with her imaginative mischief. The series concentrates on Ramona from nursery school to 4th grade, touching on social issues such as a parent losing their job, financial instability, the death of a family pet, school bullies, divorce, marriage, sibling relations and experiencing the addition of a new sibling, and more, all of which explore growing up in middle-class America. She was then given a larger role in the novel Beezus and Ramona and became the protagonist of her own book in Ramona the Pest. She starts out in the Henry Huggins series as the pestering younger sister of Henry's new best friend Beatrice, called 'Beezus' by Ramona and her family. Ramona Geraldine Quimby is a fictional character in an eponymous series of novels by Beverly Cleary. Fictional character Ramona Geraldine Quimbyīeezus Quimby (Older Sister & Best Friend)

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