A Year Down Yonder

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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: A Year Down Yonder is a cool book. If you haven't read this book you need to or otherwise you will be missing out on a good book. Am going to tell you some details, ok. In this book there is a grandma and her granddaughter. She has to come live with her because her mom has only enough money for her and her husband. Her daughter can't stay with her older brother because he is at war and that's all the details,I can tell you so by for now

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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: Mary Alice has to go live with her grandma because her dad loses his job because of the depression. Mary Alice hates the idea of going to live with her grandma for a year in a town where no one has any secrets. She soon learns to live with her grandmas wacky-ways. Then at the end of the year Mary Alice doesn't want to leave to Chicago because she learns to love her grandma more than ever. I like this book a lot. I liked how the author made it easy to picture in your head what was going on in the story. My favorite character was Grandma Dowdel. She was such a sweetheart but she was quite odd. I recommend this book for people with a good sense of humor.

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Summary: The story of a Chicago Girl
Review: I loved a Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. Mary Alice's grandma is sooo funny! Most of the time Mary Alice didn't think her grandma would give in when people asked her to do something like cook Cherry tarts but she did and people were very thankfull because from my point of veiw she sounded like the best cook in town. Mary Alice always wondered where her grandma got the money for somethings but she never asked. I like how Grandma knew what was going to happen and she was always prepared like how she knew the boys were going to flip her privy.I like how the book makes you feel like you are right there in the story and it gives you a view of what times where like back in 1937. They think of a quarter or a dollar as alot of money. Grandma always lied but it got her out of alot of stuff. I really liked this book and I encourage others greatly to read it.

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Summary: the best book ever
Review: This book is great. I absaloutly think it was a great book. I think it was so funny. Mr.Peck must write a sequel i need to know about Mildred and Royce and Joey . This book is great and i thank you for selling it to me.

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Summary: Come spend a year down yonder!
Review: A superb book for every reader! Mary Alice and her grandmother will warm your heart.

When Mary Alice is sent to live with her grandmother in Illinois, she gains more than she expected. Her parents must send her to grandmother Dowdel's house for a year during the depression. Mary Alice is reluctant to go, but over the year she comes to understand her grandmother and develop a special bond.

A delightful story of growing up and experienceing new things.

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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: Fifteen year-old Mary Alice has been sent to live with her terrifying yet caring grandma. Mary Alice doesn't fit in in her grandma's "Hick Town" in Illinois, where she is known as the rich girl from Chicago. Being her grandma's sidekick, although it's interesting, isn't easy, either. For her grandma, the terror of the town, is known as being trigger-happy. But even though it's hard, being around her granmda never fails to make Mary Alice's life interesting and funny at times. And most surprising of all, Mary Alice learns that deep-down her grandma's heart is filled with caring and kindness. "A Year Down Yonder" is both a heartwarming and hilarious book.

~*Caitlyn*~

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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: In this sequel to A Long Way to Chicago, Richard Peck does a great job of detailing the setting of this delightfully funny book which takes place during the depression era. In great detail, he depicts the harsh realities of the depression. However, the setting takes a backseat to all of the other action going on between two very dynamically interesting characters. A Year Down Yonder carefully depicts the mishaps of 15-year old Mary Alice and her witty Grandma Dowdel. The characters really come to life through Peck's narration and great detail. This book greatly describes the unique relationship between these two round characters.

Skeptically, Mary Alice must move in with her feisty and sometimes eccentric grandmother for a year in a small town in the middle of Illinois. In the beginning Mary Alice is a little more than unwilling to participate in her grandmother's hair-brained schemes. She sees her as a crazy old woman with no redeeming value. Sadly, the rest of the community sees Grandma Dowdel in the same light. She has a reputation all over town of being off-the-wall and kind of scary. The patrons of the town fear her and her rifle. But before long Mary Alice is having a little fun herself in being an accomplice with the crazy adventures thought up by her grandmother. Before Mary Alice realizes it, Grandma Dowdel has taught her many lessons about life as well as herself. There are many other memorable characters in this book besides Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel. It was fun getting to know all of their quirks and idiosyncracies. I really enjoyed seeing how Mary Alice had such a change of heart from the beginning of the story to the end. This transgression took place slowely through the well-written pages of this novel. It was interesting to see how the change unraveled within this seemingly unchangeable character.

I most definitely recommend this book to all readers--the young as well as the old. Richard Peck's writing is clever and unique. He never fails to write successful literature. This particular piece of work is full of witty stories and characters. It was very easy to get caught up in the lives and personalities of this dynamic pair. Overall, I think this Newbery Award winning book is full of extremely hilarious adventures as well as some wildly unique characters.

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Summary: A year down yonder
Review: Working in a Library gives me access to so many wonderful books. I originaly borrowed this book for my son. I had a Doctors appt. one day and upon finding it still in the car, decided to take it in with me. I found myself thoroughly engrossed by the time I was finally called in. Young and "Not so young" alike will find this completely entertaining and charming. A must read for all ages.

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Summary: Great book, but read it with your kid(s)
Review: This is one of the best books I've read with my daughter in a long time. We read it out loud together (she's 9). I'm glad I did so, since I think there is a lot of information that would be confusing to kids nowadays. I think you need to have at least a sense of what the Depression era was like (I'm 40 and rely on my knowledge of history & stories from my parents & grandparents). But, we both loved this book! Now we need to read A Long Way From Chicago.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Another strange time at Grandma Dowdell's. In A Year Down Yonder, a 15-year-old must survive her very strange time. This is a great book for ages 9+. It was really good. The detail is amazing, and you can really picture what's happening. I recomend this book for people who like, or love, to read.