Thank you so much for this - I'd forgotten how Ramona spoke to me at that age. So many of her trials mirrored my own - the annoyed older sister (although I have to say my own was much meaner than Beezus) the unemployed, worried father (reading Ramona and her Father was a revelation to me - as a young kid with a depressed dad, I'd taken so much of his sorrow on, feeling it was somehow my job to fix it - that book showed me I wasn't the only one), the working mother.

Thank you for reminding me of my love for these books. I may just order one and crack it open for old time's sake.