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Ramona Quimby, Age 8
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Ramona the Pest: Book 6

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) (edit title/settings)

by Beverly Cleary (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works. If Mrs. Quimby didn't work, Mr. Quimby couldn't return to college. On top of all that, third grade isn't turning out as Ramona expected, even though she enjoys her class's new reading program, D.E.A.R. Danny... read more

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  • Ramona Quimby: Ramona is the main character. She's 8 years old. She calls Danny a Yard Ape. Ramona's feet grow in the class and squeaked.
  • Janet: Worked in the book report with Ramona
  • Willa Jean: 4 year old granddaughter of Ramona's babysitter. She used to love playing a game going in a circle and fall down until she caught up with Ramona's sustained silent reading
  • Beatrice 'Beezus' Quiby: Ramona's big sister. She always wants to a sleepover with Mary Jane. She always talks about how much work she has
  • Mrs. Whaley: Ramona's teacher. She is nice, but once she said, when Ramona threw up, to file in the hall and hold your noses
  • Mrs. Larson: Ramona's school's secretary. She is helps everyone if there is a problem
  • Emily: Ramona is eight years old. She is now responsible for many new things but she has a few road blocks but Ramona always seems to get through it
  • Howie: Ramona's best friend. He is very nice like when he let Ramona ride his bike
  • Mrs. Kemp: Ramona's babysitter. She always wants Ramona to take care of Willa Jean
  • Sara: Add a description of this character.
  • Marsha: She acts as though Ramona is a baby
  • Danny: He tries to act silly. Sometimes he is mean like the time he wasn't giving Ramona her lucky eraser
  • Mary Jane: She invites a lot of girls for sleepovers.
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  • Ramona Quimby hoped her parents would forget to give her a little talking-to. She did not want anything to spoil this exciting day.
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  • Then Mrs. Whaley said, “I hear my little show-off came in with egg in her hair.” She laughed and added, “What a nuisance.”
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  • uniform she wore in the doctor’s office where she worked as a receptionist.
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  • accuracy from everyone, even herself. All summer, whenever a grown-up asked what grade she was in, she felt as if she were fibbing when she answered, “third,” because she had not actually started the third grade. Still, she could not say she was in the second grade since she had finished that grade last June. Grown-ups did not understand that summers were free from grades.
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  • “Yard apes!” yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people’s hopscotch games.
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  • Howie Kemp’s house, where her parents paid Howie’s grandmother to look after her until one of them could come for her.
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  • Ramona often felt as if teachers were thinking, I wonder why Ramona Quimby isn’t more like her big sister.
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  • Superfoot was a name she had given herself. That made all the difference. She had won.
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  • dismal thought, being extra good, but it was better than allowing their parents to punish them. Ramona went to her own room, where she curled up on her bed with a book. She wished something nice would happen to her mother and father, something that would help them forget the scene at the dinner table. She
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  • With all four members of the family leaving at
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First Sentence edit see section history

Ramona Quimby hoped her parents would forget to give her a little talking-to.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter 1. The First Day of School
Chapter 2. At Howie's House
Chapter 3. The Hard-Boiled Egg Fad
Chapter 4. The Quimbys' Quarrel
Chapter 5. The Extra-good Sunday
Chapter 6. Supernuisance
Chapter 7. The Patient
Chapter 8. Ramona's Book Report
Chapter 9. Rainy Sunday

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 6 of 8 in Ramona the Pest. (standard series)

Preceded by Ramona and Her Mother, and followed by Ramona Forever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Beverly Cleary (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Alan Tiegreen (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Morrow
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0688004776
Page Count: 190

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PZ7.C5792 Rais
  • Dewey: <Fic>

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

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