

Loading... A Year Down Yonder (2000)by Richard Peck
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No current Talk conversations about this book. Loved it. ( ![]() Hmph. I _thought_ she was imitating Grandma Dowdel a little too well. Now there's two of them running their little plots. Interesting but not enjoyable, for me - if you don't mind manipulators, you might like it better. Although the vagueness remains, I still was in stitches during Mary Alice's first attempt to "study" with Royce McNabb. Hilarious. It's 1937, and Mary Alice is now 15 years old. She has been sent to live with her grandmother while her father searches for employment. Things are tough all over, but Grandma Dowdel hasn't changed from her eccentric ways, using atypical methods to keep them both clothed and fed. Wonderful, smile-inducing book, and worthy of the Newbery it won in 2001. Thoroughly enjoyable. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesGrandma Dowdel (Book 2) Is contained inHas as a student's study guide
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54 — Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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