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. 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.
A Year Down Yonder is the Newbery Award winning book, and it’s the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago. While this book is set in a small country bumpkin town during the Great Depression, it’s a hilarious story about fifteen-year-old Mary Alice who is sent to live with her Grandma for a year during the Great Depression while her parents get situated. Grandma Dowdel is a force to be reckoned with her resourcefulness is matched by her heart of gold and Mary Alice’s year is filled with enough drama to fill a newspaper.Ī Long Way from Chicago is from Mary Alice’s older brother’s perspective during their eight summers at Grandma Dowel’s farm and the antics they got into. It also gives a gentle history on how the Great Depression impacted their community.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. I have just discovered this Newbery Award-winning author and I have to say he’s an amazing story teller. This hilarious book is great to read aloud, and will leave both moms and daughters in stitches.Īnd here’s a review from reader Mia W. While grandma is gruff and no-nonsense, she soon enlists Mary Alice in her schemes to influence neighbors-some who are friends, some who are enemies. 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 this is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, it can easily be read and enjoyed on its own. Here’s my review of A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck.
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