Ramona can feel the stress her dad is going through and tries to figure out how she can become a millionaire that does commercials to help out.  Her dad she that she is struggling with all of this and starts working a large art piece with her laid out all over the floor.  

 Her sister, who she calls, Beezus teams up with her on a campaign to get their dad to stop smoking. They make signs and post them up all over the house.  

    Ramona and her sister both get asked to be their church’s Christmas-carol program. Ramona was going to play a sheep and needed a costume.  Her mother was so tired when she got home she didn't have time to make the costume like Ramona wanted.  She was being a brat until she finally realized that spending time together with her family at Christmas and her dad finding out that he had a new job were the most important things.

 

This quote describes exactly how Frida felt the entire time her and her husband Diego were in California. She missed her home town dearly. Here in California she felt lost and unseen. She was an artist too but not as famous as her husband. This made her feel invisible next to him, this is what inspired her for her award winning art work. She too wanted to be great so she continued to work on herself, she began to put herself first. 

     On this trip they are headed to the cool and scary Rain Forest!  They have a cute little mouse named Peanut that goes on the adventures with them.  They run into several things like:  army ants, crocodiles, piranhas, and an annoying monkey that keeps throwing fruit at them.  

     They finally figure out that the monkey is just throwing fruit at them because it is one of the items they need.  After they found the object they needed they are headed back home.  They keep all of their adventures in a notebook and when they left Jack wrote, The Amazon is Amazing!!!