Ramona gives a book report to her class from behind a cat mask that she made. After her mother apologizes, Ramona is able to forgive her mother for making a mistake. When she’s punished for complaining about her dinner, Ramona wonders whether her own unhappiness is being caused by her hardheartedness. She is angry with her mother for causing her embarrassment and for a while can’t forgive her. Ramona doesn’t think she can face her teacher again. In the principal’s office, Ramona overhears Miss Whaley call her a show-off and a nuisance. However, her mother accidentally packs a raw egg instead, and it makes a mess in Ramona’s hair when she cracks it on her head. Whether it’s her new sandals that squeak as she walks across the classroom or a jar of blue oatmeal that causes her to throw up, Ramona has a hard time staying out of trouble.īeing liked is very important to Ramona, so when everyone brings a hardboiled egg to school for lunch, she brings one, too. But no matter how hard she tries to fit in with her peers and please her teacher, Miss Whaley, something always seems to go wrong. Eight-year-old Ramona Quimby finds a lot to like about first grade, including Sustained Silent Reading and learning to write in cursive.
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