# Ramona the Pest

**Author:** Beverly Cleary
**Lexile:** 750L
**Grade range:** Grades 2–4
**Age range:** 7–10
**First published:** 1968
**Page count:** 192
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780380709540`
**ISBN-10:** `0380709546`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ramona-the-pest
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Five-year-old Ramona Quimby's first year of kindergarten — with boot-pulling disasters, teacher misunderstandings, and an ongoing feud with her sister Beezus. Cleary's Ramona novels are a pillar of US elementary reading lists, assigned routinely in grades 2-4 and appearing in Common Core ELA Appendix B.

## Themes

- family
- school
- growing up
- being misunderstood

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 exemplar (Cleary)](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oregon — [source: Oregon DOE — Beverly Cleary as state author](https://www.oregon.gov/ode/Pages/default.aspx)

### Hawai'i Nēnē Award

- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Hawaii — [source: Hawai‘i Nēnē Award (Hawaii Association of School Librarians), winner archive via Goodreads — 1971 Nēnē Award winner](https://www.neneaward.org/)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Hawaii — [source: Hawai‘i Nēnē Award (Hawaii Association of School Librarians), winner archive via Goodreads — 1971 Nēnē Award winner](https://www.neneaward.org/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Hawaii — [source: Hawai‘i Nēnē Award (Hawaii Association of School Librarians), winner archive via Goodreads — 1971 Nēnē Award winner](https://www.neneaward.org/)

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: Oklahoma Library Association — Sequoyah Book Award, Children's (gr 3-5) + Intermediate (gr 6-8) divisions (student-choice; since 1959); winner roll 1959-2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah_Book_Award)

### Young Reader's Choice Award (PNLA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1971 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1971 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1971 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)

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