A Year down Yonder

by Richard Peck
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Published by: Penguin Group, Inc.
eBook Publish Date: December 30, 2002
Print ISBN: 0142300705
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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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In this Newbery Honor book, Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a year-long stay in rural Illinois with her irrepressible, rough and gruff grandmother. Soon, however, she becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to carry out madcap schemes to benefit friends and avenge enemies. In a starred review, PW called this sequel to A Long Way to Chicago "hilarious and poignant." Ages 10-14.
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Bio of Richard Peck

Richard Peck was described by the Washington Post as "America's best living author for young adults." He is the first children's writer ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal. The author of more than thirty books, he has also won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature, the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among countless other honors. He lives in New York City.