Third grade brings Ramona a new school, a bus ride alone and plenty of embarrassing moments
A big year for Ramona
Ramona Quimby is eight and starting third grade at a new school. She rides the bus by herself, likes her teacher and wants very much to be grown-up. But her father has gone back to college, money is tight, her afternoons are spent with a pesky little girl named Willa Jean, and one day at school she cracks a raw egg on her head. Being eight turns out to be complicated.
Who will enjoy it
Children aged about six to ten and families who want a funny, honest read-aloud about school and family life.
What you will get
A warm, funny and true-to-life story about a girl trying hard to be grown-up, with family love and everyday problems handled with gentle humor.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Children’s Books · School · Family · Growing up
Length
208 pages · ≈ 6 h
More about this book
In this book Ramona is eight, and big changes are happening in the Quimby household on Klickitat Street. Her father has left his job to study to become an art teacher, her mother works full-time, and her older sister, Beezus, has started junior high. Ramona must ride the bus to a new school and spend afternoons at the house of Mrs. Kemp, whose granddaughter Willa Jean, a determined four-year-old, makes Ramona's patience wear very thin.
At school Ramona likes her teacher, Mrs. Whaley, until she overhears herself being called a nuisance. A craze for cracking hard-boiled eggs on the head goes badly wrong when her mother accidentally packs a raw one. Ramona gets sick in class, invents a book report in the style of a television commercial, and helps her family through a gloomy, rainy Sunday when everyone is cross. At the end of the day a dinner out brings an unexpected kindness from a stranger. Cleary captures the worries of children who notice more about money and parents' moods than adults think.
Gentle, funny and comforting. About 208 pages, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers in recent editions.
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