Ramona Quimby/YMMV

• Adaptation Distillation: The Ramona and Beezus film takes plot elements from most of the books and keeps all the Age-Appropriate Angst and the drama, although the trailers emphasize the humor.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Ramona herself, whose series is a spin-off of the Henry Huggins series. Additionally, the first book (Beezus and Ramona) was written from Beezus' perspective; Ramona simply took over the series.
• First Installment Wins: Averted, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby: Age 8 and Ramona & Her Father are very well known.
• Periphery Demographic: Adults. Technically, many kids would be older than Ramona if they're reading about her in her younger years (it's not like kindergartners or first-graders will be the ones reading Ramona the Pest or Ramona the Brave!). But adults find the books charming and nostalgic.
• Stuck in Their Shadow: Beezus, who gets a minimum number of plots compared to Ramona.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Ramona's father once gets accepted for a job teaching in Oregon, and the possibility of moving and what it would mean for Ramona (leaving behind her friends, her school and even Picky-Picky's grave) is brought up. However, later on in the same book, Mr. Quimby reveals that he instead took a promotion to manager at the store where he's working.
• Too Good to Last: The show was quite good, not to mention a faithful adaptation, but only lasted 10 episodes.
• The Woobie: To some extent, Davy in the first few books. He's slow to learn, and his parents later divorce.
  • In Ramona the Pest, the student's have to draw a picture of their house. "Davy's house looked like a clubhouse built by some boys who had a few old boards and not enough nails. It leaned to one side in a tired sort of way."
  • Ramona definitely counts as well during her Age-Appropriate Angst moments.