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A year down yonder

A year down yonder

by Richard Peck

DepressionsIllinois in fictionJuvenile fictionGrandmothersFiction
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About this book

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.

Themes & subjects

DepressionsIllinois in fictionJuvenile fictionGrandmothersFictionHistorical Fiction

Setting

Illinois1929

About the author

Richard Peck

1934

Author

Richard Peck

Pages

138

Read time

≈ 3h

Editions

7

Languages

English, Chinese

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

ISBN

9781440665202

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