Ramona Quimby, Age 8: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Ramona Quimby, #6) (Cavalcade story cassettes)

by Beverly Cleary

Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)

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Ramona Quimby, one of the most loved characters in children's fiction, has now reached third grade. At school, she acquires a new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, who addresses the class as "you guys." At home, she helps the family "squeak by" as her father returns to college to become an art teacher.

All the Quimbys have their ups and downs, but none feels them more intensely than Ramona. Her low point is undoubtedly reached the day she throws up in class and Mrs. Whaley instructs the children to hold their noses and file into the hall. But three days later Ramona recovers her verve sufficiently to give a book report in the style of a T.V. commercial, bringing down the house with her final ad-lib line of "I can't believe I read the whole thing!"

Writing with humor and compassion, Beverly Cleary continues her chronicle of a child's growth and lovingly reaffirms the durability of the memorable Quimby family. They may not be nice all the time, but they stick together through good times and bad.

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  • ISBN10 0688004776
  • ISBN13 9780688004774
  • Publish Date 17 March 2020 (first published 28 September 1981)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperCollins
  • Edition Reillustrated ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English