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Tittle: Ramona and her Mother Copy right:1979 208 Pages

This story is about a girl named Ramona and her mother. Ramona's mother got a job that Ramona wishes she would quit so they could spend more time together like they used to. If her mother quit her job maybe she would have time to realize that Ramona wasn' t a baby anymore. Ramona is seven and a half she is quite grown up for her age. She has a short hair cut all the time that's the way she gets it cut later in the story. She has a dislike to her friend Howie's little sister Willa Jean. She disliked her because she trys to ruin everything and people say Willa Jean reminds them of Ramona.

The setting is at her house, at Howie's house, and at a hair salon. It is in present time. Most of the time it takes place at her house or at Howie's house. She's in the car pretty much everyday to go between her house and Howie's house.

The major conflict is that Ramona is trying to grow up but nobody notices her. The way anyone would notice her is if she did something ungrown up, one example of something wrong she did is squirt the toothpaste all over the bathroom sink and then she had to put it into a jar and use it by herself while the rest of the family got to use a fresh tube. She trys agreeing with her mom about everything to make her sister feel like she is acting like a little kid would for not getting her way. She wants to be able to do grown up things with her mom like Beezus did. There are many things that Beezus did with her mom that Ramona wishes she could do but her mom had stated to work and there wasn't enough time to do things like that anymore.Ramona's older sister Beezus wants to get her hair done at Robert's school of hair design, where a really good girl named Dawna but she had graduated last week. Another conflict is that Dawna graduated last week. So Lester cut her hair and made her look like a 40 year old women. Ramona got her hair cut by Denise and it looked really good. Everybody said she looked like a fairy.

I would recomend this book for kids that are in 2nd grade - 5th grade because they might like the way that Ramona acts he does a lot of things that she shouldn't just to get attention. One of the funny things she did was when she was at Howie's house was that they were in the basement and they wanted to see if the wooden boat they made would float so the put water in the clothes tub they use to wash clothes and filled it with water. After that they put the boat in the tub, then Ramona sees the stuff they use to take out stains then Ramona climbs on the edge of the tub and gets it down it is a blue color they wanted the water in the tub to look like the ocean. But Ramona spilled it when she was getting down from the edge of the tub it went all over her, the ground, and Howie. So Ramona had to barrow some of Howie's old clothes so her's could be washed. I really like this book because she won't give up on getting attention from anybody.