# Ramona Quimby, Age 8

**Author:** Beverly Cleary
**Lexile:** 860L
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 1981
**Page count:** 190
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780380709588`
**ISBN-10:** `0380709589`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ramona-quimby-age-8
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Ramona starts third grade in a new school, rides the bus, and navigates a tired family stretched thin while her dad goes back to college. Beverly Cleary's Newbery Honor book captures the small triumphs and humiliations of a spirited eight-year-old. A classic grades 3-5 read.

## Themes

- family
- school
- growing up
- humor

## Where this book is assigned

### Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)

### Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Arkansas — [source: Arkansas State Library / Arkansas Literacy Association — Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; annual since 1971)](https://library.arkansas.gov/programs/book-awards/charlie-may-simon-book-award/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Arkansas — [source: Arkansas State Library / Arkansas Literacy Association — Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; annual since 1971)](https://library.arkansas.gov/programs/book-awards/charlie-may-simon-book-award/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Arkansas — [source: Arkansas State Library / Arkansas Literacy Association — Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; annual since 1971)](https://library.arkansas.gov/programs/book-awards/charlie-may-simon-book-award/)

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