Bevery Cleary is a very good writer. She has a certain style that makes even a bring story interesting.

I read her memoirs, A Girl from Yamhill, and the sequel, On my own Two Feet. A Girl From Yamhill was about her life all the way up until she left to go to college. I really liked this one. It was a long book, but it was so interesting that I read it in 2 days! I thought it was more interesting than On My own Two Feet, only because it seemed more exciting things happened. It included the emotional struggles that she had with her mother, and described what it was like to live during the Depression. She was sick all the time, and she went through a lot of boyfriend issues.

In On My own Two Feet, Beverly struggles with love, her mother, and getting a job during the depression and WWII.

I also read one of her children’s books, Beezus and Ramona. I had purposely stayed away from ALL Ramona books when I was younger, and I don’t know why. I guesss I thought that Ramona was a really obnoxious child that everyone played up to be perfect, and I was wrong. Ramona is acutally a lot like my sister Imani, not annoying, just really strong-willed, and in Beezus and Ramona, Beezus, Ramona’s big sister is struggling with thinking that she doesn’t love Ramona, and how no one lies her as much as they like Ramona. I really liked that book, and reading A Girl from Yamhill, I also discovered that Ramona is modeled after the author, who was also strongwilled as a little girl, and as a woman.