First-ever movie adaptation of Beverly Cleary book on the way

Writing legendy Beverly Cleary is celebrating her 90th birthday by authorizing the first movie ever made from one of her books.

The film is based on the fourth book in the Ramona series, "Ramona and Her Father," in which Ramona is in the second grade and her father loses his job.

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