While she has to play silly games like “Uncle Rat” with a four-year-old, Howie gets to ride his bike outside with friends. Ramona quickly comes to resent Howie for shoving the care of Willa Jean on to her. He’s her age, and very literal, while Ramona is imaginative.
Ramona has to take care of Howard “Howie” Kemp’s younger sister, Willa Jean, who is around pre-school age. After school, home life isn’t exactly easy. Whaley, and to the great inconvenience of her mother, who now has to leave work. She encounters another obstacle to this goal when she throws up in the middle of class, to the disgust of Mrs. Initially enemies, the two eventually bond Yard Ape is pretty funny in his own right, and he complements Ramona’s rambunctious sense of humor. She nicknames the boy the “Yard Ape,” for his habit of sitting at the back of the bus and moping around the schoolyard. They fight, and Ramona eventually wins her eraser back. The new school looks promising until a boy on the bus takes her eraser. Ramona is going to a brand-new school where she happens to be the oldest in her class she enjoys the feeling of being the biggest kid on campus. Quimby was laid off from his job at Pacific Gas and Electric. Quimby says the joke is on all of them if they don’t eat fast and get to school besides, she has to get to work as a receptionist at a doctor’s office, a job she accepted after Mr.
Quimby, jokes that he has all of them beat as he’s going back to college to be an art teacher. Beatrice, whom Ramona nicknames Beezus, ignores her, as she’s about to start high school (though Ramona reveals this is really junior high). She’s bragging to her sister about being trusted enough to travel to school on the bus by herself after all, she’s just turned eight and is starting third grade.
The book opens to Ramona’s family sitting at the breakfast table. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is written in the third person from Ramona’s perspective. Themes specific to Ramona Quimby, Age 8 are the importance of independence, perseverance through financial hardship, and maintaining dignity in the face of opposition. The Ramona series follow a humorous, adventurous young girl named Ramona Quimby from kindergarten to eighth grade. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was a Newbery Honor Book in 1982, a year after its initial publication in 1981. There are eight books in total, and they were published between 19. Children’s author Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby, Age 8, is the sixth novel of the classic Ramona series.
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