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Beverly Cleary
I L L U S T R AT E D B Y
Tracy Dockray
 
 
 
Contents 
 
Title Page
Chapter 1. A Present for Willa Jean
Chapter 2. Slacks for Ella Funt
Chapter 3. Nobody Likes Ramona
Chapter 4. The Quarrel
Chapter 5. The Great Hair Argument
Chapter 6. Ramona's New Pajamas
Chapter 7. The Telephone Call
About the Author
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Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
1. A Present for Willa Jean
 
 
"When will they be here?” asked Ramona Quimby, who was supposed to be dusting the living room but instead was twirling around trying to make herself dizzy. She was much too excited to dust.
“In half an hour,” cried her mother from the kitchen, where she and Ramona’s big sister Beatrice were opening and closing the refrigerator and oven doors, bumping into one another, forgetting where they had laid the pot holders, finding them and losing the measuring spoons.
The Quimbys were about to entertain their neighbors at a New Year’s Day brunch to celebrate Mr. Quimby’s finding a job at the ShopRite Market after being out of work for several months. Ramona liked the word brunch, half breakfast and half lunch, and secretly felt the family had cheated because they had eaten their real breakfast earlier. They needed their strength to get ready for the party.
“And Ramona,” said Mrs. Quimby as she hastily laid out silverware on the dining-room table, “be nice to Willa Jean, will you?
Try to keep her out of everyone’s hair.”
“Ramona, watch what you’re doing!” said Mr. Quimby, who was laying a fire in the fire-place. “You almost knocked over the lamp.” 
Ramona stopped twirling, staggered from dizziness, and made a face. Willa Jean, the messy little sister of her friend Howie Kemp, was sticky, crumby, into everything, and always had to have her own way.
“And behave yourself,” said Mr. Quimby.
“Willa Jean is company.”
Not my company, thought Ramona, who saw quite enough of Willa Jean when she played at Howie’s house. “If Howie can’t come to the brunch because he has a cold, why can’t Willa Jean stay home with their grandmother, too?” Ramona asked.
“I really don’t know,” said Ramona’s mother. “That isn’t the way things worked out. When the Kemps asked if they could bring Willa Jean, I could hardly say no.” I could, thought Ramona, deciding that since Willa Jean, welcome or not, was coming to the brunch, she had better prepare to defend her possessions. She went to her room, where she swept her best crayons and drawing paper into a drawer and covered them w ............

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