Davy is character from the Ramona series of books by Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...

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Fictional character biography

Davy is a skinny shy boy. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother. Ramona first meets Davy in kindergarten, in the book Ramona the Pest

Ramona the Pest

Ramona the Pest is the first of Beverly Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's book chronicles the adventures of Ramona's first few months at kindergarten...

, in which he is the only boy in the class to wear short pants. She thinks he's so cute she decides to kiss him. She chases him around the playground almost each morning in kindergarten. Finally, at the Halloween parade, as Ramona sees Davy in a pirate costume, knowing it by his thin legs, she kisses him through her mask.

Davy is in first grade along with Ramona in Ramona the Brave

Ramona the Brave

Ramona the Brave is a juvenile novel written by Beverly Cleary and illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. The book was first published in 1975, seven years after Ramona the Pest, the previous installment of the Ramona series.-Plot summary:...

, and it is discovered that Davy is having reading problems. He reads certain words backwards, which leads one to believe that Davy may be dyslexic

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

. Ramona is torn because she wants to help Davy out.

Davy did not make any more appearances in the Ramona Series.