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A Year Down Yonder
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A Year Down Yonder
by Richard PeckIn A Long Way from Chicago, Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel first made their captivating debut. They're back for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when 15-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. A parade of fools are made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.
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A Year Down Yonder
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A Year Down Yonder
The winner of the 2001 Newbery Medal continues the story begun in the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago. Now 15 years old, Mary Alice is going to spend an entire year with her unpredictable Grandma Dowdel -- a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors.
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Interest Level:
8-12
Lexile Framework:
610L
Grade Level Equivalent:
4.9
Guided Reading Level:
V
Age:
12-18
Genre:
Series, Realistic Fiction
Subject:
Great Depression, Families and Social Structures, Extended Family, Individuality
The worst part of the "Roosevelt Recession" in 1937 is that Mary Alice has to spend a year in a rural town with her feisty and conniving Grandma Dowdel. After enduring many outrageous schemes, Mary Alice eventually learns to appreciate her grandmother's wisdom and her ways. This Newbery Medal winner is the hilarious sequel to Peck's celebrated A Long Way From Chicago.
