A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
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A Year Down Yonder

Author: Richard Peck

Narrator: Lois Smith

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2008

Synopsis

Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.

About The Author

Richard Peck has won numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal, and was the first children's writer ever to have received a National Humanities Medal. The author lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on August 12, 2020

It’s 1937, and many Americans are learning that the Great Depression, which began eight years previously, is not over. In fact, more people are losing their jobs and being evicted and having to scrounge for food. This is the case for Mary Alice’s family. So, while her brother (featured in the “Newbe......more

Goodreads review by Amy on October 05, 2022

My 5th and 6th graders are currently reading this book. It's quite delightful. I started the audio book on the way home from work and couldn't turn it off. I adore big-boned Grandma Dowdel, with her crafty schemes, her happy trigger finger, and her "eyes in the back of her heart." Some of her ornery......more

Goodreads review by The Dusty Jacket on July 04, 2020

It was 1937 and the country was in the midst of what people were calling the Roosevelt recession. The Dowdel family, like so many others, had hit upon hard times and Mary Alice was to be sent to live with her grandmother until the family got back on their feet. She and her brother, Joey, had spent m......more

Quotes

"In this hilarious and poignant sequel to A Long Way to Chicago, Peck once again shows that country life is anything but boring." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Again, Peck has created a delightful, insightful tale that resounds with a storyteller's wit, humor, and vivid description." —School Library Journal

"With the same combination of wit, gentleness, and outrageous farce as Peck's Newbery Honor book, Long Way from Chicago, this sequel tells the story of Joey's younger sister, Mary Alice, 15, who spends the year of 1937 back with Grandma Dowdel in a small town in Illinois." —Booklist

Awards

  • Newbery Medal Winner
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