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BeverlyCleary ILLUSTRATED BY Tracy Dockray 1 Contents1. Ramona Spreads the News 2. The Role Model 173. At Daisy•s House 354. The Invitation 555. The Princess and the Witch 716. The Party 927. The Grown-up Letter 1088. Peas 1289. Ramona Sits 14610. The Valentine Box 17011. Birthday Girl 184About the AuthorOther Books by Beverly ClearyCreditsCoverCopyrightAbout the Publisher1 Ramona Spreadsthe News Ramona Quimby was nine years old. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and no cavities. She had a mother, a father, a big sister named Beatrice who was called Beezus by the family, and—this was the exciting part—a baby sister named Roberta after her father, Robert Quimby. Look at her tiny fingernails, Ramona marveled as she looked at the sleeping 1 Roberta, and her little eyebrows. She is already a whole person, only little. Ramona couldnt wait for the first day of school so she could spread the news about her baby sister. 2That day finally came. It was a warm September day, and Ramona, neat and clean, with lunch bag in hand, half skipped, half hopped, scrunching through dry leaves on the sidewalk. She was early, she knew, but Ramona was the sort of girl who was always early because something might happen that she didnt want to miss.The fourth grade was going to be the best year of her life, so far. Ramona was first to arrive at the bus stop in front of Mrs. Pitts house. Mrs. Pitt came out the front door and began sweeping her front steps. Hi, Mrs. Pitt,Ramona called out.Guess what! My baby sister is two months old. Good for her, said Mrs. Pitt, agreeable to a baby in the neighborhood. Babies did not scatter candy wrappers or old spelling papers on the lawn in front of her house. Ramona pretended she was playing hop-scotch until her friend Howie, who was 3already familiar with Roberta, joined her along with other children, some with their mothers, who were excited about the first day of school. Hi, Ramona, he said, and leaned