As punishment, the parents make the girls cook dinner on Sunday night. That evening, the Quimbys bicker over dinner when the girls refuse to eat their food upon realising their parents served them tongue. Whaley has a low opinion of her, since she overheard her saying, 'What a nuisance' on the phone and calling her a show-off. The school secretary washes it out, but Ramona fears that Mrs. At lunch, she tries cracking her egg on her head, but it turns out that Dorothy Quimby accidentally put a raw egg in Ramona's lunch box instead of the boiled one, so Ramona gets egg in her hair, prompting Yard Ape to call her 'Egghead'. She brings an egg to school, then goes to science class, where they study fruit fly larvae that live in blue-dyed oatmeal. Some time later, hard-boiled eggs become a fad at school, and Ramona begins eating them at lunch despite disliking them. The next day, the teacher introduces the class to Sustained Silent Reading, or Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R), and after school, Willa Jean ropes Ramona and Howie Kemp into a roleplay of 'Froggie Went a'Courting' with Howie in the role of Froggie, herself as Miss Mouse, and Ramona as Uncle Rat. Ramona calls the boys 'yucky yard apes', earning Danny the nickname 'Yard Ape'. When Ramona gets to the school, she meets a boy named Danny, who calls her 'Bigfoot' due to her large, new shoes and steals her eraser, playing catch with it with some other boys. On the way there, they run into the Kemp siblings, and Willa Jean Kemp is starting preschool, though she claims she's going to 'kidnergarten', thinking that's where the kids are. The story opens on the Quimby sisters preparing to start a new school year- Ramona Quimby is starting third grade at a different elementary school than her previous one, while Beezus Quimby is starting junior high.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is the sixth book in the Ramona Quimby series, focusing on Ramona adjusting to her third grade year, in a new school.

Ramona quimby age 8 book cover