{"description": "Ramona the Brave is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is the third book in the Ramona series, and follows Ramona Quimby and her classmates (some of them were in her kindergarten class for the previous year) going into first grade. Ramona the Brave was first published in 1975, seven years after Ramona the Pest. It was originally illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.\r\n\r\n----------\r\nAlso included in:\r\n\r\n - [Best of Ramona](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20587275W)\r\n - [Trouble with Ramona and Beezus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17377136W)", "links": [{"title": "beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Ramona", "url": "http://www.beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Ramona", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Ramona the Brave - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_the_Brave", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://readingforsanity.blogspot.com/2011/12/ramona-brave-beverly-cleary.html", "title": "Ramona the Brave - Beverly Cleary - Reading For Sanity", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Ramona the Brave \u2014 \"Ramona\" Series Book Review | Plugged In", "url": "https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/ramona-the-brave/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "Ramona the Brave", "covers": [10788591, 8595399, -1, 11360324, 12844747], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ramona Quimby, brave and fearless, was half running, half skipping to keep up with her big sister Beatrice on their way home from the park."}, "subject_places": ["Room One"], "first_publish_date": "February 1, 1995", "subject_people": ["Ramona Quimby", "Beatrice Quimby", "Mrs. Grigg", "Howie Kemp", "Jesus", "Susan Kushner"], "key": "/works/OL151951W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL22132A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"comment": "first sentence", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}, "excerpt": "Ramona Quimby, brave and fearless, was half running, half skipping to keep up with her big sister Beatrice on their way home from the park."}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["family", "siblings", "Humorous Stories", "Juvenile fiction", "Fiction", "Novela juvenil", "Schools", "Escuelas", "Teachers", "Families", "juvenile works", "juvenile books", "Juvenile audience", "fear", "Ficci\u00f3n juvenil", "Ramona Quimby (Fictitious character)", "First grade (Education)", "Courage in girls", "Children's fiction", "Schools, fiction", "Quimby, ramona (fictitious character), fiction", "Family life, fiction", "Large type books", "Children's stories", "School stories", "Premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e (\u00c9ducation)", "Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse", "\u00c9coles"], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "location": "/works/OL151951W", "genres": ["/tags/OL172T"], "latest_revision": 27, "revision": 27, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T23:22:20.267455"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T11:05:39.944043"}}