Ramona the Brave 雷梦拉系列：勇敢的雷梦拉 ISBN9780380709595

　　In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona,feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she findsthat her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils wholike to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different,clearly the two are incompatible.　　Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively.Enraged when Susan copies her wise old owl prepared for Parents'Night and receives praise for it, Ramona rebels. Overcome by guiltand no longer brave, she tries mightily thereafter to please herteacher, but still Mrs. Griggs infuriatingly reports home thatRamona lacks self-control. Only because she is a girl with spunk,to use her father's word, does Ramona's courage return, earning herat last an uneasy truce with the teacher.　　Beverly Cleary draws here a portrait of a little girl discoveringwith astonishment that the way others see her is not always the wayshe sees herself. In the contrast lie moments of emergingself-knowledge for Ramona and of delicious hilarity for thereader.