Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich Uncle Hobart, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
Much interest is being shown in the movement to provide some form of hot food to supplement the cold lunch that the child attending rural school must carry from home. In our country there are between five and six million under-nourished school children.