Quotes from Beverly Cleary

Henry thought that was a good time to hang up.

young. Let your Uncle Lester

make. Henry sent it back across the street. Pow! Scooter

When Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of the family and the youngest person on her block.

Our very lives depend on him." The little cousins

Ralph curled up on a heap of shredded Kleenex and took a good long nap. When he awoke refreshed, his first thought was of the motorcycle.

Now if he could only keep him quiet for fifteen minutes they would be home and Ribsy would be his for keeps.

And to think that he was going to live right here in the neighborhood!

you can't put that boy and his dog off in the rain.

sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.

Ramona, who did not mean to pester her mother, could not see why grown-ups had to be so slow.

Ramona did not consider herself to be a pest. People who called her a pest did not understand that a littler person sometimes had to be a little bit noisier and a little bit stubborn in order to be noticed at all.

Nobody but a genuine grown-up was going to take her to school. If she had to, she would make a great big noisy fuss, and when Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of her family and the youngest person on her block.

Conversation from the living room was boring, all

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glowered. "All right," he said, and raised his voice to a yell.

You're nothing but a snoop and a tattletale!

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf. Write it

Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.

That girl has been bad again," Ramona heard the four-year-old next door say to her little sister.

It was a warm September day, and Ramona, neat and clean, with lunch bag in hand, half skipped, half hopped, scrunching through the dry leaves on the sidewalk.

Ramona was the sort of girl who was always early because something might happen that she didn't want to miss.

to Ramona, because it was

at least not all the time.