Ramona is devastated thinking that Miss Binney is mad at her. In Chapter 7, “The Day Things Went Wrong,” Miss Binney tells Ramona that she is not welcome in kindergarten until she can learn to stop pulling Susan’s hair. Halloween rolls around in Chapter 6, “The Baddest Witch in the World,” and Ramona dresses up as a witch for Halloween but has a terrifying thought during the Glenwood School Halloween parade that perhaps she will be forgotten underneath the mask. In Chapter 5, “Ramona’s Engagement Ring,” Ramona gets a new pair of rainboots, and when Henry Huggins rescues her from being stuck in the mud, she decides that she will marry him one day.
She hides behind a row of trash cans until Henry Huggins finds her and brings her back to school. When Miss Binney does not come to school the next day in Chapter 4, “The Substitute,” Ramona is sad and decides that she does not want to attend kindergarten unless Miss Binney is teaching. Ramona learns to write her name in Chapter 3, “Seat Work,” and she also realizes just how much she loves and wants to please Miss Binney. In Chapter 2, “Show and Tell,” Ramona brings her doll named Chevrolet to school. Ramona is eager to please Miss Binney, but she keeps getting into trouble. Ramona gets accustomed to her classroom, and she identifies two classmates of particular interest to her: First, there is Susan with the curls that go “boing” when she tugs on them and then there is Davy, the little boy that Ramona has a crush on. In Chapter 1, “Ramona’s Great Day,” Ramona meets her new teacher, Miss Binney, and is immediately enamored with her.
Ramona the Pest opens on the morning of Ramona Quimby’s first day of kindergarten, and she could not be more excited. As the Ramona series goes on, readers watch Ramona grow from a young child (in Ramona the Pest, she is about 5 years old) into a pre-teen (in Ramona’s World, she is about 10 years old). Cleary creates an entire universe of characters set in the same neighborhood, each of whom she explores in a separate series. Ramona the Pest is set in the same neighborhood as Cleary’s “Henry Huggins series,” who is also a character in the book. The Ramona series is “realistic fiction” in that there are no fantastical elements and both plotline and characters are true-to-life.
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