Ramona forever / Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.
Record details
- ISBN: 0380709600 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 182 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Avon Books, 1995, c1984.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An Avon Camelot book." |
Summary, etc.: | Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job. |
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Subject: | Family life > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 14 of 14 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bridgeport Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Newfield Branch - Bridgeport | X J CLEARY (Text) | 34000071762017 | Closed Stacks Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Kirkus Review
Ramona Forever
Kirkus Reviews
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So it appears--for Ramona now looks set to weather the advent of a baby sister! Lots happens in this latest installment of the Quinby family chronicles. Pal Jason's ""rich"" Uncle Herbert arrives from Saudi Arabia (looking ""ordinary,"" in a muddy van), and in the to-do Ramona realizes that Jason's sitter-grandmother doesn't like her. ""Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children."" She's through with going there after school, she announces at the family dinner table, and Beezus seconds her. (Why is Beezus so ready to stay home and look after Ramona? Junior-high troubles--aggravated by pimply skin.) Dad is too calm, too tolerant, now that he's studying to be a teacher--and with the teacher surplus that Aunt Bea has spoken of, will he get a job? Beezus has also caught intimations that Mother may not be working much longer, ""because she's going to have a baby""--and the baby part doesn't sit well with Ramona at all. The direst possibility doesn't materialize: the Quinbys don't move from Portland to take the single, remote teaching job offered. Instead, Dad will become a manager for the supermarket-chain where he's been working part-time. (Like it? ""We can't always do what we want in life,"" as today's theme goes, ""so we do the best we can."") But these developments, and more (the death and burial of elderly puss Picky-picky), are briefly overshadowed by Aunt Bea's and Uncle Hobart's marriage--and the real wedding he speedily arranges for the Alaska-bound couple, over female protestations that it can't be done. It's a measure of Cleary's talent and acumen that the Quinbys are as credible in the mid-1980s as they were in the mid-1950s. Copyright ĆĀ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
The Horn Book Review
Ramona Forever
The Horn Book
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Five of Beverly Cleary's beloved books about irrepressible Ramona Quimby are updated with contemporary-looking black-and-white illustrations. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly Review
Ramona Forever
Publishers Weekly
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In Newbery Medalist Cleary's seventh book about the Quimbys, eight-year-old Ramona and the whole family are caught up in momentous events. Beezus and Ramona share sorrows and help each other instead of tiffing when their dear cat dies. They worry about the consequences if their aunt marries a man they're not sure they like, about Mr. Quimby's new job taking them to a distant town. Most of all, Ramona wonders about her status when Mrs. Quimby has a new baby. PW correctly predicted that the ``gently humorous story, with Tiegreen's drawings emphasizing the main happenings,'' would be another of the author's bestsellers. (812) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved