A Year Down Yonder
by:
Richard Peck (author)
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice...
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Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142300701 (0142300705)
ASIN: 142300705
Publish date: December 30th 2002
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
Family
Series: A Long Way from Chicago (#2)
9/2012 Damn, this book makes me miss my grandma Millie. Beautifully written, hilarious and poignant in equal measure. Now I'm going to have to re-read A Long Way from Chicago too!2007 The grandmother in this book reminds me of my own irrepressible grandmother. The warm and nostalgic tone never tips ...
I really liked all three of the Mrs Dowdel stories and would be happy to read a fourth! The continuity from book to book and the character development are both great. Even though they are set in a very particular time and place there's something about them that makes them timeless.
The book wasn't bad (I really want to like it), but I was bored reading it. Definitely my least favorite Newbery.
A charming tale of a simpler time. I haven't read "A Long Way From Chicago", which was this book's prequel, but it stood well on it's own. Sentimental and comical, it's a read that's easy to love.
LOVE this book. It’s a sequel to A Long Way From Chicago, which is also nice. But A Year Down Yonder…I can’t even tell you. It’s the story of Mary Alice who has to go live with her crazy Grandma Dowdell during the Depression. It’s funny, tender, tragic, and realistically awkward, all at the same tim...
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