A Well-Written Book by Richard Peck

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	• A Year Down Yonder (Thorndike Press Large Print Young Adult Series) Richard Peck, 2001 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 151 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful book

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!

Very Nice

This is one of the best books I have ever read, and cried at the end.

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A Well-Written Book by Richard Peck

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 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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Fabulous read aloud

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.

A Year Down Yonder

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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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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