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Ramona Quimby: The Mischievous Girl Next Door Hits the Big Screen
National Public Radio
Fans of Ramona Quimby are either dreading or delighting in the fact that their feisty young heroine has gone Hollywood. The movie Ramona and Beezus comes out today, with Disney Channel star Selena Gomez as big sister Beezus and newcomer Joey King as Ramona. Ramona first appeared in the 1950s, as a minor character in Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins books. She was the pest, the well-intentioned trouble-maker, and she would prove such a force of nature that Cleary gave Ramona her own series, eight books in all.
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