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.
Beatrice (or Beezus, as everyone else called her) was very patient with her little sister Ramona, but eventually she got so exasperated that she decided she didn't like her at all.
Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
Ramona Quimby expects fourth grade to be the best year of her life, and although things do not go just as she had hoped, she still manages to have her share of adventures.
Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins.".