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BeverlyCleary ILLUSTRATED BY Tracy Dockray viiiContents 1. Ramonas Great Day 1 2. Show and Tell 37 3. Seat Work 63 4. The Substitute 83 5. Ramonas Engagement Ring 106 6. The Baddest Witch in the World 134 7. The Day Things Went Wrong 159 8. Kindergarten Dropout 180 About the AuthorOther Books by Beverly Cleary Credits Cover CopyrightAbout the Publisher 1 Ramonas Great Day am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her Ibig sister Beezus. Then stop acting like a pest, said Beezus, whose real name was Beatrice. She was standing by the front window waiting for her friend Mary Jane to walk to school with her. Im not acting like a pest. Im singing and skipping, said Ramona, who had only 1 recently learned to skip with both feet. Ramona did not think she was a pest. No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest.The people who called her a pest were always bigger and so they could be unfair. Ramona went on with her singing and skipping. This is a great day, a great day, a great day! she sang, and to Ramona, who was feeling grown up in a dress instead of play clothes, this was a great day, the greatest day of her whole life. No longer would she have to sit on her tricycle watching Beezus and Henry Huggins and the rest of the boys and girls in the neighborhood go off to school. Today she was going to school, too. Today she was going to learn to read and write and do all the things that would help her catch up with Beezus. Come on, Mama! urged Ramona, paus-ing in her singing and skipping. We dont 2want to be late for school. Dont pester, Ramona, said Mrs. Quimby.Ill get you there in plenty of time. Im not pestering, protested Ramona, who never meant to pester. She was not a slowpoke grown-up. She was a girl who 3could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. Then Mary Jane arrived. Mrs. Quimby, would it be all right if Beezus and I take Ramona to kindergarten? she asked. No! said Ra