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  <title><![CDATA[Ramona the Pest]]></title>
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  <default_description>The engaging tale of young Ramona Quimby's first days in kindergarten, &lt;I&gt;Ramona the Pest&lt;/I&gt; takes a pint-sized perspective on the trials and delights of beginning school. Ramona can't wait to learn all the important things. But she's disappointed when her teacher can't fill in missing parts of story lines, such as how Mike Mulligan (of &lt;I&gt;Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel&lt;/I&gt;) went to the bathroom while digging the basement of the town hall. Nonetheless, Ramona loves her teacher, and loves going to school in spite of the torments--having to wear hand-me-down boots, for example, or having to (sometimes) suppress the urge to pull on another girl's &quot;boing-boing&quot; curls. Ramona's energetic take on life appeals to children who have passed through this stage, or who are dealing with a kindergarten-age sibling who is exhibiting Ramona-ish tendencies. (Ages 7 to 12) &lt;I&gt;--Richard Farr&lt;/I&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1923</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beverly Cleary]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ &quot;No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest. The people who called her a pest were always bigger and so they could be unfair.&quot;<br/><br/>  --Ramona the Pest, P. 10<br/><br/>  &quot;Things had such an unexpected way of turning out all wrong.&quot;<br/><br/>  --Ramona...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53066611">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 19 11:03:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Feb 10 17:07:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this as part of an informal &quot;Ramona will save us, as she always has&quot; book group with a friend.  It is, by no accident, the one I reread most as a kid, in which Ramona begins school, has an actually lovable teacher, and decides to drop out after determining said teacher doesn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15040775">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 11 19:39:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Ramona was filled with the glory of losing her first tooth and love for her teacher.&quot; Oh the excitement of going to kindergarten! When everything about school was interesting and you were officially on the right track to Growing Up. When - if you were lucky - you could love your teacher. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74224535">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 17:00:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 18:04:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Margaret Donaldson's quintessential 'Children's Minds,' she discusses the importance of 'decentering' in the language we use with children.  Teachers know more than students, and thus often make false assumptions about shared knowledge: 'The better you know something, the more risk there is of be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60453954">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ramona the Pest is a very funny chapter book about Ramona Quimby's kindergarten experience. Ramona has waited all her life for kindergarten, watching her older sister Beatrice, but now her time has come! The tale about Ramona starts with her first day of kindergarten, the greatest day of her life. R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75025006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44928978">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 23:40:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ramona is a little girl who was in Kindergardan.  She lost a tooth while she was in Kindergardan.  She skreemed at her teacher once.  she said bad words, and she also had to go to the bench while playing Gray Duck.  A few days later, she was sent home and not come back.  The next chapter is when the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44928978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74994829">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fun book to read aloud with your children.  I don't remember reading the Ramona books when I was young, but I did love &quot;The Mouse and the Motorcycle.&quot;  So when our oldest daughter brought this book home from her school library, we were very excited to read it.  I had no idea when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74994829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68445052">
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    <body><![CDATA[Beverly Cleary has a real gift. Although her books span a period of decades, they all read as though they were written today. There's a few odd details in some of them, but mostly they rely on good storytelling and... well, very real-seeming children.<br/><br/>This is the story of Ramona's kinderg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68445052">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh all the Ramona books were sinfully delightful and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Ramona always misinterprets the directions, makes a mess of things, sings the wrong lyrics &quot;...by the dawnser-ly light...&quot; she can't for the life of her figure out what a dawnserly light is...cracks me right up.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book chronicles the adventures of Ramona on the first part of Kindergarten.  Ramona is often misunderstood and misunderstands.  She thinks the Star Spangled Banner is about a danzer lamp, she sticks out her tongue at a lady to show her the cat didnâ€™t get it, and she thinks her teacher is goin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68601911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ramona is one of my absolute favorite children's literature characters (though, as a big sister, I sympathized with Beezus). I have a hard time deciding between Ramona the Pest and Beezus and Ramona as my top pick from the series. I love Ramona's unique take on school, from waiting for a &quot;prese...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54486226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67217028">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brian Hodges]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ramona was always such good clean mischievous fun when I started reading.  And I think she puts to rest the publishing world's notion that kids won't read a book about a main character who is younger than them.  Ramona is entering Kindergarten in this book but clearly this book is intended for third...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67217028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55811922">
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  <date_added>Tue May 12 11:04:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never read a Ramona book and wasn't sure what to expect.  I thought it was decent overall and things like nap time brought back memories of kindergarten.  Given that it is over 40 years old it is surprising how well it has held up - I suppose many things about childhood are timeless.  &quot;Ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55811922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53733042">
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  <read_at>Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 03 20:47:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading all the Ramona books and loving them as a child.  Re-reading it, I was filled with nostalgia but also found myself becoming more critical of the book.  For example, where is Mr. Quimby for the first 2/3 of the book?  Why don't the adults have first names?  What kind of parents let...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53733042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paige definitely enjoyed having me read this to her -- our first chapter book together!  (We'd tried Charlotte's Web about 6 months ago without success.)  Since Paige just started kindergarten, was could definitely relate to the story.<br/><br/>Ramona is just as spunky and entertaining as ever.  P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67371739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book to Nakyla and we had such a good time with it.  She kept asking for more, so it only took us two days to read it.  I was really impressed by the questions that she has asked during this process.  I also enjoy reading the book again for myself.  Ken overheard one of the parts where R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63761662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first (of many) Cleary books to give Ramona Quimby a starring role.  Spunky and imaginative, Ramona enters kindergarten and makes each day an adventure for her classmates, teacher and family alike.<br/><br/>This book captures life through a child eye's with great detail.  When Ramona's teacher t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54955119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of my first Spanish attempts. It's tough to find books at the right level in a foreign language, but this one hit the spot while I was taking Spanish lessons in Sevilla.<br/><br/>The repetition and linearity of kid's books are much easier to follow even when I lack some of the importa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74722082">more...</a>]]></body>
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