Beverly Cleary's Newbery Honor Book depicts an average middle-class family dealing with the realities of life. With the perfect mix of humor and warmth, Ramona Quimby shines as a spirited girl with her heart set on helping. Seven-year-old Ramona world is turned upside-down when her father unexpectedly loses his job. Things grow tense in the Quimby house, but Ramona resolves to help in any way she can-even downsizing her Christmas list. But with bills...

A little girl collects wildflowers while walking through town with her father.

Nelly Gnu spends a day building a play house with her father.

"After an eventful spring break, seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life changes forever"-- Provided by publisher.

A little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house, eventually revealed to be a "Halloween House."

After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.

When a cruel neighbor decides to sell her curious if out-of-shape Shetland pony for horsemeat, the pony's only friend, scrawny eleven-year-old Yonder, resorts to desperate measures to save him.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

Little Pyn finally persuades her gruff father to find the perfect Christmas tree in the snowy forest and, after bringing it home, decorates it with him.