Riding the school bus alone isn't the only new experience making third grade exciting for Ramona Quimby. From befriending a boy called Yard Ape t

Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class.

The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.