A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck
	List Price:   $6.99 Unit Price:   $5.59 You Save:   $1.40 (20%) ISBN-10:   0142300705 ISBN-13:   9780142300701 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Middle School, Young Adults Pub. Date:   December 2002 Pages:   144 Format:   Paperback Ages:   10 to 14 years Grades:   5th to 8th
Awards
2001  Newbery Medal (USA)  Winner!  2003  Mark Twain Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree  2003  Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree  2003  William Allen White Children's Book Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree  2003  Arizona Young Reader's Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
GRANDPARENTS_FICTION DEPRESSIONS_FICTION COUNTRY LIFE_FICTION ILLINOIS_FICTION CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Richard Peck, the acclaimed author of over twenty-five novels, has won the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature. A Long Way from Chicago, his prequel to A Year Down Yonder, was named a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award finalist, an ALA Notable Book, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Mr. Peck grew up in Decatur, Illinois, and now lives in New York City. Twelve months with Grandma... can Mary Alice survive? Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough surprises and 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. 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. 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 Chicagohas already taken its place among the classics of children's literature.