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Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona Quimby #6)
Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus�who's tempermental enough to ruin anyone's day�comes to take her home. Life isn't as easy for Ram...more
Paperback, 190 pages
Published
January 1982
by Yearling
(first published 1981)
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Mar 23, 2011
Mariel
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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don't even remember. Probably me 'cause I was cool
Ramona was my heroine. I just adored her. I read every book (published before I turned ten. I've not read the new ones) multiple times. I'd hide them under my desk and pretend that I wasn't reading. I pretended that I was sleeping, sometimes. That was probably worse, but kid me didn't really think of that. Y'see, I did all the wrong things just like Ramona.
Coolest things about Ramona from my memories (books may overlap) :
I loved how she'd pretend that a camera was on her at all times. Just in ca...more
Coolest things about Ramona from my memories (books may overlap) :
I loved how she'd pretend that a camera was on her at all times. Just in ca...more
This seemed sort of dated to me. It's hard to explain why, but it has something to do with the innocence of the Quimby family. They have some money problems, okay, but everything seemed pretty idealized (particularly Mrs. Quimby making three wholesome meals every day--doesn't that seem straight out of the 1950s?). It's not that the book is overly sweet, it's just that it doesn't have any bite. There were two very funny parts that stood out to me: When Ramona came up with "I can't believe I read...more
For my eighth birthday, a box arrived from my aunt in Los Angeles, and she had sent me this book. Every defining experience Ramona Quimby went through was mine, even though I was living a life totally different than hers. It's obvious that Ms. Cleary's straightforward language and writing talent will live on as long as reading exists. Several years ago, I myself gifted it to my husband's then eight year old little sister, and had the pleasure of seeing her running through the woods of their home...more
Here Ramona cracks a raw egg on her head, throws up in front of her whole first-grade class, and then learns about being part of a family or something. I once vomited in front of my whole 11th-grade class. Some of us really have it rough, Ramona.
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This is a really cute story about Ramona Quimby an eight year old girl who has just entered the third grade. She hates lying and feels the weight of responsibilities that go along with growing up. Her mother wants her to be nice to Willa Jean even though she finds it really difficult, she doesn't want to be a nuisance to her teacher and she wants her dad to finish college so he doesn't have to go back to working the cash register which makes him come home cross. At the end of the story their fam...more
Ramona Quimby. Oh how I loved these stories growing up. I especially loved this book. I loved how Ramona tried her hardest to act like a big girl. With her father going back to college and her mother starting work, Ramona is having to be a big girl so her parents can trust leaving her to get on her bus and stay at her grandma's house until Beezus can pick her up. This is hard for Ramona, being that she is only 8, but she is bound and determined to make her parents proud.
I would recommend this t...more
I would recommend this t...more
I’m trying to write a lot these days. Writing things that I feel neither confident about or certain are worth writing, and so I spend a lot of time plagued with self-doubt. Enter Ramona Quimby, whose name I consistently misremember and mispronounce as Ramona Quimbly. I first met Ramona as a child, probably aged 8 or 9. I remember reading her stories and thinking ‘yes!’ and feeling like I understood everything Ramona went through. I loved that bad things happened to Ramona, but that she continued...more
I am not a re-reader. Rarely does a book capture my heart so fully that I am willing to read it twice - twice out loud even. But this is one of them. I read it to my daughter when she was in early elementary school and I have just finished reading it out loud to my sons who are nearly nine and six. I never finished a chapter without them begging for one more and my six year old in particular was adamant about getting at least one chapter before bed every night.
Ramona is just a girl. A little sis...more
Ramona is just a girl. A little sis...more
Genre: Contemporary Realism
With the all the new changes in the Quimby family, quirky Ramona is just trying to get by as best as she can to help out her family. She constantly worries about the problems faced by her parents, so it is her job to do well in school like her big sister, Beezus, and behave for her after school babysitter, Mrs. Kemp. However certain things like her new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, and Mrs. Kemp’s granddaughter, Willa Jean, are preventing her from doing so. She is trying her b...more
With the all the new changes in the Quimby family, quirky Ramona is just trying to get by as best as she can to help out her family. She constantly worries about the problems faced by her parents, so it is her job to do well in school like her big sister, Beezus, and behave for her after school babysitter, Mrs. Kemp. However certain things like her new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, and Mrs. Kemp’s granddaughter, Willa Jean, are preventing her from doing so. She is trying her b...more
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Aug 12, 2011
Tricia
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4 of 5 stars
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Picked this up for a road trip with 2 of my boys, because the youngest one is the same age as Ramona (and heading into 3rd grade).
In this book, Ramona is off to the 3rd grade, and having to deal with changes (and stresses!) in the family (her dad going back to college, her mom working full time, she and Beezus at different schools). Typical of the Ramona series, you get insights into how a child views the world and the adults around her. I find these to be good reminders for me as a parent - ma...more
In this book, Ramona is off to the 3rd grade, and having to deal with changes (and stresses!) in the family (her dad going back to college, her mom working full time, she and Beezus at different schools). Typical of the Ramona series, you get insights into how a child views the world and the adults around her. I find these to be good reminders for me as a parent - ma...more
Wow! I loved the Ramona Quimby books when I was a kid. (Who didn't?) But I'm pretty sure the last time I read this book, I too was 8. Reading it as an adult is a completely different experience.
The book is still hilarious, but it's an entirely different set of jokes that cracked me up. The book is thick with a deadpan humor that's obviously meant to appeal solely to adults. Mad props to Beverly Cleary for writing something that is literally fun for all ages.
On the darker side, I had forgotten ho...more
The book is still hilarious, but it's an entirely different set of jokes that cracked me up. The book is thick with a deadpan humor that's obviously meant to appeal solely to adults. Mad props to Beverly Cleary for writing something that is literally fun for all ages.
On the darker side, I had forgotten ho...more
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is a very quick, easy read that seems like it would be perfect for younger readers. Each chapter has its own arc while still being connected to the other chapters, so it's easy to leave off and pick up again. I definitely have the feeling that Beverly Cleary remembers being a kid and can successfully write from the perspective of one because of it.
Some things in the book were frustrating-- not exactly story-telling issues, but more issues of attitude. The Kemp grandmother is...more
Some things in the book were frustrating-- not exactly story-telling issues, but more issues of attitude. The Kemp grandmother is...more
The main character in this book is Ramona Quimby who is eight years old and starting the third grade. There are many changes that happen in this point in her life. Money is tight for her family because her father decides to go back to school to get his degree in art and become a teacher. Her mother works at a Doctors office during the day so she can't pick ramona up from school so she has to go over to her friend Howie's house. She hates going over there because Howie's little sister Willa Jean...more
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is a funny, wonderful book that I loved when I was eight myself. I still loved it when I reread it this week at age twenty-eight. I love this book because Ramona is funny, smart, flawed, creative, self-possessed, and strong-willed. So why--why why why why why--did the publisher redo the illustrations to make Ramona look like a too-cute doll?
Here's Ramona as I first knew and loved her, messy and real:
Here's Ramona today, idealized and commercialized:
I feel like the new illust...more
Here's Ramona as I first knew and loved her, messy and real:
Here's Ramona today, idealized and commercialized:
I feel like the new illust...more
The book I read today ( which is Sunday) was "RAMONA QUIMBY". In this story she is eight years old. The characters that are in this story is RAMONA'S MOM, RAMONA'S DAD, RAMONA'S SISTER(WHICH HER NAME IS BEATRICE), HER CAT PICKY-PICKY, AND THE LAST CHARACTER IN THIS STORY IS RAMONA OF COURSE.
On the starting of Ramona's first day in third grade she got ready. First of all, like every children does in the morning before they go to school is brush their teeth. After Ramona did that she started put...more
On the starting of Ramona's first day in third grade she got ready. First of all, like every children does in the morning before they go to school is brush their teeth. After Ramona did that she started put...more
This fun and lighthearted Newbery Honor book is about a third grade girl named Ramona. She faces many of the same trials that other children are at this age. As it says on the cover, "Life as a third grader is tough!" Whether it is dealing with the "Yard Ape," the embarrassment of cracking an egg on her head, throwing up at school, or doing a book report, something is always on Ramona's mind. Ramona also faces some family trouble. She is worried her mom might lose her job and her dad might not f...more
I read this because it was referenced in the Series of Unfortunate Events books and because it had a Newbery Stamp on the cover - always my standard for picking books out at the library when I was a bookish and lonely kid. I happily noticed that it's another children's book in which the children take solace in reading books. Children's literature is a self referential lot maybe because authors write from the childhood they knew, huddled up with books to escape the perilous world outside. Back th...more
1. { Genre }: Junior > Other > Realistic Fiction
2. { Summary }: With her father going to college and her mother working, Ramona, age 8, has much to adapt and live up to.
3a. { Area for comment }: Message of Family, Food
3b. { Critique }: I particularly adore the message that Cleary sends in this title - family.
3c. { Critique Example }:When I was 8, the only thing I could remember was the boy who wouldn’t stop playing with my hair in class and my fascination with barbies of whom I made home...more
2. { Summary }: With her father going to college and her mother working, Ramona, age 8, has much to adapt and live up to.
3a. { Area for comment }: Message of Family, Food
3b. { Critique }: I particularly adore the message that Cleary sends in this title - family.
3c. { Critique Example }:When I was 8, the only thing I could remember was the boy who wouldn’t stop playing with my hair in class and my fascination with barbies of whom I made home...more
I loved Beverly Cleary books when I was younger. I remember this one in particular. Ramona and smashing the egg in her hair because she thought it was hard-boiled....only it wasn't, the Yard-Ape, the umm dinner that could taste you back. I remember it being a reassurance to read about Ramona's life and to know that all of that stuff was normal. Families fought, parent's were annoying, school was tough, but in the end, everything was okay.
I loved sharing it with my daughters this time around. My...more
I loved sharing it with my daughters this time around. My...more
Beverly Cleary's 6th installment in the Ramona Quimby series received the Newbery Honor in 1982 and the Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award in 1983. The target audience is children ages 5-8(P) and it is a contemporary realistic fiction.
In this installment of the series, Mr.Quimby begins studying to become an art teacher. As a result, Ramona's mother has to work longer hours, which means Ramona now has to spend the evenings at Howie's house with Grandma Kemp and, of course, Willa Jean.
This s...more
In this installment of the series, Mr.Quimby begins studying to become an art teacher. As a result, Ramona's mother has to work longer hours, which means Ramona now has to spend the evenings at Howie's house with Grandma Kemp and, of course, Willa Jean.
This s...more
The first chapter of this book is about Ramona's excitment about going to a new school and being able to ride the school bus all by herself. Before leaving for school her parents remind her to hold her head up high and have high hopes. On the bus and at school a boy starts picking on Ramona, but she is able to stand up for hersef. She does this by turning something negative that was said to her into something positive. I think this would be a good chapter to read to students on the first day of...more
Ramona Quimby is now in third grade. She faces even more challenges that she manages to overcome. Her family has to work hard while her father goes back to school, and of course Ramona has several problems with school.
The writing style of this book is very easy for kids to adjust to. Most of the language is written the way most people talk. The periodic illustrations in the book provide nice additions to the story. There are not too many illustrations, making this a good book for younger reade...more
The writing style of this book is very easy for kids to adjust to. Most of the language is written the way most people talk. The periodic illustrations in the book provide nice additions to the story. There are not too many illustrations, making this a good book for younger reade...more
This is another book I listened to this week. I don’t believe I’ve read the Ramona books since my children were little. This was delightful, not even the first one, but Clearly immediately shows Ramona to be this wonderfully complex character who is not all good girl or mischievous, wonderful daughter or a whiny one, always willing to compromise or often wanting her own way. In other words, she is a complex, quite likeable character who is beginning to know herself well, who makes good choices m...more
Narrated by Stockard Channing
Publisher: Listening Library, p1991, c1991
ISBN-10: 0-8072-7262-0
Genre: Fiction.
Subjects: Family life Fiction, School Fiction, Children's Audiobooks.
Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.3
Tells adventures of Ramona taking the bus for the first time to school - without her big sister Beezus. Having to go to after school care, Ramona struggles with being nice to 4 year-old Willa Jean.
Talks about parents going to school and working full time and effect it has on family t...more
Publisher: Listening Library, p1991, c1991
ISBN-10: 0-8072-7262-0
Genre: Fiction.
Subjects: Family life Fiction, School Fiction, Children's Audiobooks.
Interest Level: 3-6
Reading Level: 5.3
Tells adventures of Ramona taking the bus for the first time to school - without her big sister Beezus. Having to go to after school care, Ramona struggles with being nice to 4 year-old Willa Jean.
Talks about parents going to school and working full time and effect it has on family t...more
I felt like a light evening of reading, and chose this old book. I was too old to read a kids books when this one came out in 1981, but I've enjoyed it now as an adult. I was also hoping for a bit of wisdom from Cleary about 8-year olds - the age group I teach right now. If anything, I was reminded about how sensitive kids are, and how they overhear what their teachers say (and misunderstand it). Interestingly, Beezus is now grade 8 in this book, dealing with mixed boy-girl parties and trying to...more
I didn't remember this book as well as the other Ramona books I have reread as an adult. I think the one part I did remember- and is still my favorite scene from the book is when Ramona can't remember the rest of her book report and blurts out, "I can't believe I read the whole thing!" Other great moments in this book: Ramona and Beezus cooking dinner, Ramona cracking the raw egg on her head, and the everything involving the Yardape character. The part in which she throws up in class is particul...more
The first chapter of Ramona Quimby, age 8 was an introduction of the Quimby family and the adjustments they are making as a family. Mr. Quimby is going back to college and Ramona is starting a new school. She is trying to prove to her family that she is dependable and grown up. This could be a book I could begin reading to my class, and depending on the age and grade finish it out loud or let the students finish on their own. This book would be great to read at the beginning of the year to show...more
When I was home visiting my parents about a month ago now, my Mom gave me this book that was mine when I was little.
So I sat & read it all in one sitting. It was silly & made me laugh & feel like I was 8 again while re-reading it for those few short hours :)
So I sat & read it all in one sitting. It was silly & made me laugh & feel like I was 8 again while re-reading it for those few short hours :)
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Who is Ramona Quimby? A spunky, loveable, imaginative, callous-picking 8 year old that has wormed her way into my heart (no pun intended). There is nothing -NOTHING- bad I can say about this series; and I've read it so long ago that this is the only one I recall. How do I start to tell about this series's perfection? Each one of the characters are hilarious, the wording is adorable, and the storyboard is just told as if out of a real child's mind. Sure, it's a little simple- but we didn't ask Ra...more
Ramona is one of the most endearing, and real, child characters in juvenile literature. The situations she finds herself in, from bravely taking the school bus for the first time to getting sick in front of her entire 3rd grade class, are experiences many children have had. And, Cleary explains these situations in a voice that sounds like that of a 3rd grader, with a touch of humor thrown in. Further, the variety of emotions, concerns and fears Ramona expresses show the reader that feeling happy...more
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Beverly Cleary (born April 12, 1916) is the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Mouse.
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“He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.”
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