A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
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Author: Richard PeckBrand: Puffin Books
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-30
ISBN: 0142300705
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Puffin
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- ISBN13: 9780142300701
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of A Year Down Yonder
Book Review: A Great Year
Summary: 5 Stars
Review by Becca12 an (...) from Mattituck
The train came to a screeching stop as Mary Alice got off to meet her big, tall, spidery, wispy haired grandma Dowdel.
"It was a September morning, hazy with late summer, and now with all the years between" is the first sentence of the book A Year Down Yonder where Mary Alice a quiet, mind-your-own business city girl from Chicago, moves down yonder in Illinois for a year shortly after the Great Depression. When she was a kid she would go down with her brother Joey one week during the summer. Now going for a year, being 15 without Joey made her nervous to be staying with her trigger-happy grandma Dowdel who is pushy but kind hearted and really, really smart.
As a sequel to the book A Long Way From Chicago, Richard Peck makes it so easy to just jump right in to A Year Down Yonder; Peck re-introduces all of the characters so it's easy to follow. This is fantastic realistic fiction book.
In this book Mary Alice has lots of adventures with her witty grandma, Mary Alice learning more and more about life as she soon shall know it, learning how to get what she needs, how to stand up for her-self
The most exciting part of this book is when this guy, Andrew, an artist comes to live at Mary Alice's house and one day Mary Alice has this guy over Royce McNabb that she has a HUGE crush on him. Anyway he came over to tutor her in math. The suddenly screaming from the attic is a women's voice down she comes from the attic. Wearing a snake. Only that's the only thing that she's wearing. As she runs out of the house the snake, of course, falls off. Royce, baffled. Mary Alice embarrassed. Grandma speechless. Andrew was doing a nude painting.
The theme in this book is always be looking out for the future. Richard Peck, an award-winning author won a Newbery for this book, his craft is always keeping the book going. There is never a dull moment. Exciting events are always happening. He also uses a lot of sophisticated language but is extremely easy to read.
I recommend this book to 9-99 years old. If you love a book that once you start you will never want put down, that when its over you're yearning for more that is adventurous and funny then A Year Down Yonder is the book for you.
Summary of A Year Down Yonder
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.
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 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 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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