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Summary: Ramona learns it is always easy being eight years old.
Review: It is not always easy being in the third grade as Ramona Quimby learns. Ramona learned that you should not always follow the latest fad because it could and most likely will end in disaster. So, in response to that she tries to create her own fads. Ramona also learns to take responsibility for others when she has to watch out for Willa Jean at her baby-sitters house. Ramona and her family learn a valuable lesson at the end of the story. This was an excellent book and I am sure that most children would enjoy it and be able to sympathize with some of the situations Ramona finds herself in.
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Summary: Trip Down Memory Lane
Review: My 8 year old son and I read together about 3 hours a week and this book is definitely one of the most touching books in the Ramona series. We've both grown to love Ramona Quimby. In fact, my son gasped when we read about Ramona overhearing her teacher, Mrs. Whaley, calling her a nuisance and couldn't believe anyone could say anything mean about poor Ramona. Beverly Cleary has a knack for expressing Ramona's thoughts in a way that reminds adults about how great an impact our words and actions have on children.
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Summary: One of your most beloved childhood friends ever printed!
Review: My sister and I grew up on Beverly Cleary's very imaginative and delightful books all about the whole gang of lively kids which my mother had introduced to me AND grew up on herself. Once a bratty little sister clad in overalls, Ramona eventually matures into a very complex character with her triumphs and woes and frustration and fulfillment and all! In fact, this is the very adventureous and fun-loving young girl that April Patterson, one of the characters from the comic strip, "For Better or For Worse" had been imitating all along!
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Summary: As a Mom of an 8 yr old ....
Review: My son read this book in his 3rd grade class. Every 2 days they were assigned a chapter and each night I looked forward to reading it with him and discussing it. The language was easy to understand and the concepts have withstood the test of time from when the book was written. It was sparsely illustrated with just enough pictures for those children who are afraid to take the leap from pictures on each page to full blown chapter books. We look for Beverly Cleary books in the library each week for continuing sagas in Ramona and Beezus' life.
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Summary: Ramona is a Really Funny Book!
Review: Ramona 8 is a hilarious book! Ramona gets into lots of trouble. I recommend this book to 3rd graders and up. I recommend this book to kids and grown ups with a good sense of humor!
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Summary: Ramona The Best! by William Robert
Review: Ramona is very good at calling people names like "yard ape" etc. It was a cool name to give to a particular character in this book. My favorite character in this book was exactly "Yard Ape", because he likes baseball and I like baseball. My second favorite character was Ramona herself, because she is funny and she likes aadventures like I do. I think the book is special because it has very funny characters. This is not a lie!. Beverly Cleary is the 2nd best author I have read in my life. I have read 3 books by her. I even did a project about the book. Tha's all I have to say about this great book.
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Summary: BOOK REVIEW ON RAMONA QUIMBY AGE 8
Review: Ramona Quimby Age 8
This is one of the best books I ever read. It was about Ramona, Beezus,& the rest of the Quimbys. One day in class , Ramona got sick.Her teacher called her a nuisence. Then she apologized. She got egg in her hair at lunch.She got it all out though. Well that is about all I have to say.I think you might like it if you read it.
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Summary: Ramona Quimby Age Eight--Read it!
Review: Ramona Quimby Age Eight In the book Ramona Quimby Age 8 Beverly Cleary tells the life of Ramona. Ramona is a short brown haired, brown eyed eight year living in the city. In the beginning Ramona had the first day of third grade. After school Ramona had to go to Howie her preschool friend's house to play. Pretty soon she got bored of going to Howie's house. Later, Ramona got an egg dropped on her head in the cafeteria. Ramona also threw up and had to go home. I would recommend this book for ages 7 and up. There is no violence in this book. It really is a great book and the ending is very exciting.
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Summary: This book is funny and very intresting.
Review: Ramona Quimby is a silly 8 year old girl who is always getting into trouble. Beezus her intelligent older sister is always getting her out of trouble. Ramona is now moving on to the third grade without Beezus. Ramona never thought the third grade could be so hard. Mrs.Whaley, her teacher, thinks she is a show off and a nuisance, just because Ramona mistakenly cracked an unboiled egg on her head thinking it was boiled, and threw up in front of the class! Ramona is very sad and lonley. What will Ramona do without Beezus on her side to help?
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Summary: Family Support in Ramona Quimby
Review: Ramona Quimby is eager to be grown up and treated with respect. The main character in Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is the youngest child in a family of four and has just started the third grade. Ramona finds that being in third grade at a new school does not prove to be one hundred percent fun as she had anticipated. Along with school, Ramona finds life frustrating at home, with her parents constantly worrying about money and her older sister Beezus constantly in a bad mood. However, Ramona discovers that no matter how bad things may be, she can always turn to her family for the help and love that she needs. Ramona's main worry throughout the novel is school, especially her teacher, Mrs. Whaley. Ramona loves to be the center of attention, but manages more than one time to attract more looks than even than even she can enjoy. At one point Ramona, in an attempt to crack a "hard-boiled" egg on her head, ends up with runny egg-mess all over her face. After the incident, she overhears her teacher referring to her as the "nuisance." Not long after the egg incident, Ramona manages to make another scene when she vomits in class. Ramona is devastated by these events, and turns home for comfort. She tells he parents about the incidents. In the 1999 Children's Literature in Education, Linda Benson exemplifies the notion of home support. She states, " both her mother and her father let her know that the egg incident and the throwing up were not intentional and therefore not the nuisance that intentional behavior would have been" (25). With the support of her family, Ramona is able to return to school with her head held high. Though Ramona seeks home for comfort from the stresses of everyday life, she finds that home can be a stress in itself. Ramona's mother and father often get into serious discussions about money that they think she and Beezus cannot hear. The Quimby family does not have a lot of money and because of this often the mood in the house is tense. On one particularly rainy Sunday afternoon the whole family is in a fight. Mr. Quimby has finally had enough and offers to take the whole family out to dinner, despite the fact that in actuality he cannot afford to go to a restaurant. At dinner they are able to relax and enjoy one another's company. When Mr. Quimby attempts to pay for his family's meal he finds that a kind old man who had been observing the Quimby's has already done so, because he sees they are such a nice family. On the way home, Ramona is content and thinks to herself. " She was a member of a nice sticking-together family, and she was old enough to be depended upon, and so she could ignore- or at least try to ignore- a lot of things" (Cleary 189). Cleary uses Ramona's family as her backbone throughout the story. Despite the problems they constantly encounter, the Quimby family is able to stick together in the end. By drawing from her family's support Ramona is able to face anything that comes her way. Benson, Linda. " The Hidden Curriculum and the Child's New Discourse: Beverly Cleary's Ramona Goes to School" Children's Literature in Education 30.1 (1999): 9-29. Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Quimby, Age 8. New York: Avon Books, Inc., 1992.
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