Ramona Geraldine Quimby is a fictional character in an eponymous series of novels by Beverly Cleary, published from the 1950s to 1990s.
The series concentrates on Ramona from nursery school to 4th grade, touching on social issues such as a parent losing their job, financial instability, the death of a family pet, school bullies, divorce, marriage, sibling relations and experiencing the addition of a new sibling, and more, all of which explore growing up in middle-class America.
She appears to be a very undisciplined young girl who gets away with terrible things she does, such as inviting her whole class to her house for a party without giving any notification to her family, or biting into many apples only once just for attention.
Here, Ramona is portrayed as an anxious, curious young girl about to start kindergarten who is in a hurry to mature, although she frequently and unintentionally manages to annoy those around her: she tugs at a classmate's curls out of curiosity and winds up being suspended from school, she disrupts naptime for her fellow pupils while striving to earn the position of "Wake-Up Fairy" for the day, and misunderstands the lyrics to the national anthem.
In Ramona the Pest she has a doll named Chevrolet (which has a very worn appearance) and her classmates laugh at her until her teacher steps in.