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Summary: full of adventures
Review: a year down yonder is one of the best books ive read. the first one a long way from chicago is about a girle and her brother go to there wacy grandmas house and have lots of fun adventures. in the second one only the girle goes to grandmas house and she goes on her own adventurs. i recamend this book.
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: When Mary Alice has to go down to her grandma's house without Joey, she gets into some new adventures.
A Year Down Yonder is about a girl named Mary Alice and her grandma. Her grandma does some weird things that you would never think about. When Mary Alice has to go to school, she falls in love with Royce McNabb! Mary Alice does some strange things with her grandma, like when she stole pumpkins and pecan for pies. Mary Alice starts to act like her grandma and she doesn't even notice. I like this book a lot because it was funny, interesting, and fun to read. I think it was funny because Mary Alice and her Grandma would do things that a 12- year-old would do. I thought it was interesting because some chapters captured me into the book. It was fun to read because it kept me with questioning thoughts. I hope you will like reading this book as much as I did.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: Richard Peck's Newbery award book A Year Down Yonder is a great book. Its about a Chicago girl who moves to the country for the summer with her grandma. In the country Mary Alice thinks its going to be the worst trip but its not. She gets new friends and a boyfriend. At the end Mary Alice wanted to stay in the country. This is a great book.
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: In A Year Down Yonder a teenager named Mary Alice moves to the country from Chicago. She has to live with her Grandma who is known to like to use guns. At first when she goes to school she has to sit with a girl named Mildred who thinks Mary Alice owes her a buck. Then a girl named Ina-Rae says Mildred is a bully who stole her lunch. A while later a boy named Royce McNabb moves to town. There is one particularly mean girl name Colleen. Also a painter named Arnold moves into Grandma's house. One funny occasion is when Royce comes over to teach Mary Alice math and a woman runs out naked chased by a snake. Arnold says she was posing for a picture. In a christmas paegent instead of a doll for Jesus there was a real baby. It turned out to be Mildred's sister and that is one of the reasons she wasn't at school after the first day. I thought this book was okay.
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck, was a book about a grandmother and grandaughter's relationship during the Depression and how they survived and got food. The problems in the book are; one, Mary Alice has to leave her family, to live with her grandmother, who she doesn't really fit in with and only visited with her brother by her side. The second problem is finding food etc... There are lots of smaller problems in this book which the duo encounter, including tricker treaters. It is a 130 page book that is good and intruiging, especially when they sneak into other people's property to get food. My favorite part of the book was when they go to the "near def guys" house, and he said they can have the fallen fruit from a certain fruit tree, but barely anything falls so the grandmother gets his tractor and runs into the tree and tons of them fall. It is a fun book.
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Summary: Constant Laughter
Review: Oh my! this book is destined for a movie and i will be first in line. it is not just funny for kids, but i thought that it was the funniest book ive ever read. you will not be disappointed. also buy the audio version. the reader is awesome.
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Summary: A hard book not to love(if you like comedy).
Review: Do you like surprises, drama, and comedy? Well if you do, A Year Down Yonder is right for you.
A Year Down Yonder was written in 2000 by Richard Peck. This book won the Newberry medal for 2003.
A Year Down Yonder is a sequal to Long Way From Chicago. It's about a girl from Chicago going to live with her grandma for a year. When she gets there she has to go to a totally different school. She gets into all sorts of different problems.
I think a lot of people will like this book. Especialy people from Illinois. But people outside of
Illinois will like it too. It will show people what Illinois is like. If I had to rate this book, I would rate it 5 stars.
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Summary: Mary Alice's Trip to Grandma Dowdel's
Review: A Review by Lacey This story all starts when a 14 year old girl named Mary Alice is sent to her grandmas for a year. She is sent there because her family was in a bind and couldn't care for her in the way they needed to. Grandma Dowdel isn't the nicest old lady, so Mary Alice knows that it will be a really long year. Right away Mary Alice starts school and gets picked on by a bully. This makes it even more of a pain. As the school year goes on, Mary Alice gets a huge crush on a boy named Royce, which was one of the smartest kids in the class. Armistice Day was a weird day because all the guys in the town were turkey shooting and the women were cooking burgoo. Except in this case grandma and Mary Alice were with the guys shooting turkeys. Mary Alice received a dollar for her sixteenth birthday. In the end she ends up married to her crush, Royce, and grandma walked her down the isle. In this story I liked the conflicts, one was involving a long, black snake. This book kept me reading, it didn't bore me. It had very well pace not going to long or short about an event or subject. I think that this book should have been longer; it needed to go further into detail about the whole marriage and what happened after it. It had good visual, kind of like you could relate with the story. It had well description of everything that happened making it easier to visualize. This book wasn't too hard or too easy, it was a moderate reading level. I would recommend this book to a person that enjoyed reading situations that would happen in real life, or real life conflicts. I would probably focus on eighth to ninth grade boy or girl.
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Summary: A heartwarming Comedy
Review: A Year Down Yonder was an amazing book. It combined humor, romanticism, and history all in a 130 page book. The characters in this story were heart-warming. They changed greatly throughout the book but still kept relatively the same outlooks on life. This story not only has a page turning plot, but good morals too. The book teaches people of all ages not to be afraid of love and to always keep a positive and "let's do it!" attitude toward all of life's situations. The main plot of the story consists of the main character named Mary Alice, a middle class high school girl from Chicago, who had to spend an entire year in her rustic grandmother's small Illinois town and leave her friends back in Chicago. She goes on many adventures with her grandmother and learns a lot about life in the country, and living a laid back life in general. Her grandmother also learns a lot from her, such as how to accept love and that's its even ok to show your love sometimes. Grandma Dowdel, Mary Alice's grandmother, has a unique personality. Her physical features can almost describe her personality. She is a big, strong, brave, and somewhat crazy woman who likes to cook, fish, and doesn't abide well with the law! Mary Alice is at first unlike her grandmother in every way, but by the end of the book they both grow to love and understand each other also, showing they are somewhat alike.
I recommend this book to people of all ages who want to read about adventure and love in a family. For a family's love is one of the greatest loves of all.
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Summary: Another Winner From Richard Peck
Review: Grandma is center-stage again, and she is just as surprising, just as witty, just as cunning, and just as big-hearted as ever! She is also a mite terrifying, but everything always ends up being "just right" in the end. The revelation of her true character, beneath her crusty exterior, is this time experienced through her granddaughter, who is, herself, experiencing the pains and pangs that come with young adulthood. Warm, wise, witty, and endearing, this is not only a must-read, but a must-have.
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