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Opinion: Ramona and the Middle-Class Squeeze
Wall Street Journal
A breadwinner father loses his job. Mom goes to work full time. Stretched by bills for a broken car and a home-renovation loan, the family fears the bank will take their house. A tale ripped from 2010 headlines? No, it's the plot of the Ramona Quimby series of children's books, written by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, mostly between the 1950s and 1980s. Perennially popular, these tales of the impish Ramona and her bookish sister Beezus are back in the front of bookstores these days because of the new movie, "Ramona and Beezus," starring Joey King and Selena Gomez.
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