I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

“He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would…”

“One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at t…”

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so …”

“I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnerin…”