Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Description

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) is a novel by Beverly Cleary in the Ramona series. Ramona Quimby is in the third grade, now at a new school, and making some new friends. With Beezus in Jr. High and Mr. Quimby going back to college, Ramona feels the pressure with everyone counting on her to manage at school by herself and get along with Willa Jean after school every day. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was named a Newbery Honor book in 1982. ---------- Also contained in: [Unstoppable Ramona and Beezus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151945W)

First Sentence

Ramona tenia la esperanza de que sus padres se olvidaran de darle las recomendaciones de siempre.

Description

Now that Ramona is eight-years-old, she's doing all kinds of things she's never done before. She's in a new school with a new teacher, and best of all, she takes the school bus--all by herself! But since her mother works and her daddy's in art school, Ramona has to stay with old Mrs. Kemp every day until Beezus comes for her. And as if all that isn't bad enough, she has to be nice to four-year-old Willa Jean. Ramona knows the family is depending on her to be brave with all those changes. but sometimes it's hard. Can Ramona really handle a new school, help out at home, put up with Willa Jean, and still keep smiling? --back cover

Subjects

Series Statement

• Ramona Quimby

Other Editions

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8PaperbackYearling
• Ramona Quimby, age 8Hamilton1981-01-01
• Ramona Quimby, age 8Puffin1984-01-01
• Ramona Empieza El CursoPaperbackLectorum Pubns Inc (J)1989-06-01
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8HarperCollins Publishers1992-01-01
• Beverly ClearlyPaperbackAvon Books1992-12-01