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EAN num: 9780142300701
ISBN number: 0142300705
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Page Count: 144
Printing Date: December 30, 2002
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Age index: Ages 9-12
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It was within the pages of Richard Peck's Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago that Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel very first made their captivating debut. Now they're back for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Expect moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways. Ages 9-12. Hardcover - 130 pages
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Grandma Dowdel's back! She's just as feisty and terrifying and goodhearted as she was in Richard Peck's A Long Way from Chicago, and every bit as funny. In the very first book, a Newbery Honor winner, Grandma's rampages were seen through the eyes of her grandson Joey, who, with his sister, Mary Alice, was sent down from Chicago for a week every summer to visit. But now it's 1937 and Joey has gone off to work for the Civilian Conservation Corps, while 15-year-old Mary Alice has to go stay with Grandma alone--for a whole year, maybe longer. From the very very first moment when she arrives at the depot clutching her Philco portable radio and her cat, Bootsie, Mary Alice knows it won't be easy. And it's not. She has to sleep alone in the attic, attend a hick town school where in spite of her worn-out coat she's 'the rich girl from Chicago,' and be an accomplice in Grandma's outrageous schemes to run the town her own way--and do good while nobody's looking. But being Grandma's sidekick is always interesting, and by the end of the year, Mary Alice has grown to see the formidable love in the heart of her formidable Grandma.
Peck is at his best with these hilarious stories that rest solidly within the American literary tradition of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Teachers will cherish them as great read-alouds, and older teens will gain historical perspective from this lively picture of the depression years in small-town America. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell
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While this is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, it can easily be read and enjoyed on its own. Richard Peck writes the adventures of Mary Alice, spending a year away from her home in depression-era Chicago at her grandmother's house in the country. While grandma Dowdel is gruff and no-nonsense, she soon enlists Mary Alice in her schemes to influence neighbors - some who are friends, some who are enemies. This hilarious book is great to read aloud, and it will leave both adults and kids in stitches.
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This is one of the best books I have ever read, and cried at the end.
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My daughter had to read A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck for her 8th grade English class. We both read the book and both enjoyed it. We loved the characters, especially the grandmother. This is a wonderful book for young readers!
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I read this aloud to my students each year and they LOVE it. Not only does it lead to discussions of the Great Depression and new vocabulary, it allows my students to see that a character, like Grandma Dowdel, is seldom one dimensional and can surprise the reader with her deep affection as well as her steely determination. Thank you, Mr. Peck, for this wonderful book and A Long Way from Chicago.
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I just read the book A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck. The book is about 15 year old Chicago girl, Mary Alice, living in the Roosevelt recession. Mary has to move in with her outspoken, trigger-happy, grandmother because her parents can't afford to rent a big enough home.
Mary's very first impression of her grandmother is much like everyone else's. She thinks she is quite odd. But once she gets to know her she finds out her grandmother is really a strong, brave, secure, caring, woman.
Mary and her grandmother have many adventures. They do everything from trapping foxes to baking pies. This sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning book A Long Way From Chicago is very well written and I enjoyed reading it very much.
By Val Charter (age 11)
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