However, she is convinced that her teacher, Mrs. When first grade starts, Ramona begins learning to read.

Beezus and Ramona are going to take turns using the new room (for half a year), and Ramona gets to be first, though she finds it frightening to go to sleep in the new room alone. However, Ramona is crushed to realize that instead of considering her a hero, Beezus is embarrassed, and becomes angrier at Ramona for defending her than she is at the boys for teasing her.īy the end of summer, Mother gets a part-time job and some workmen cut a hole in their house to add an extra bedroom (especially since Beezus and Ramona would bicker often when they shared a room). Longing to be brave and grown-up, Ramona sticks up for her older sister, Beatrice 'Beezus' Quimby, when some boys tease about her nickname (calling her 'Beezus Jesus' or 'Jesus Beezus') by claiming they will go to hell for mocking Jesus. Brick Factory makes Ramona feel powerful, something that doesn't happen very often since she is the youngest in her family. Ramona Quimby has spent most of the summer with her friend Howie Kemp, pounding old bricks into dust in a game called Brick Factory. It was originally illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.

Ramona the Brave was first published in 1975, seven years after Ramona the Pest. It is the third book in the Ramona series, and follows Ramona Quimby and her classmates (some of them were in her kindergarten class for the previous year) going into first grade. Ramona the Brave is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary.

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