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Summary: a year down yonder
Review: In this book, Mary Alice moves from Chicago to the coutry side where grandma lives. Mary Alice has to move because the family is too poor to support her.
When Mary Alice moves down to live with her grandma, she has to find a new school. In the new school, she meets a girl named Mildred. Mildred is a little bit of a bully.Do you think Mary Alice ever became friends with Mildred?
Soon after school started, the whole town began to get ready for Halloween.In Chicago, Halloween was not as important as in grandma's town. Halloween was very important because in a small town people look foward to holidays.
In the school, a Christmas play was about to be performed. The school had a Chritmas play every year. When they finally performed the Christmas play, it was a blast and everybody had a great time.
Mary Alice's grandma was so out-dated she got a make over. She was looking much brtter after she was made over.
Summer was fun down there because there is no school and people can do anything for a couple of months. Still, Mary Alice did not like living at grandmas house.Do you think she stayed at grandmas house very long?
I liked this book because it showed how Mary Alice had to adjust to living with her grandmother. I can relate to this because nine years ago my grandmother came to live with my family. It takes a lot of getting used to having your grandmother around all the time.
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: A city girl named Mary Alice, moves in with her rigged, cunning Grandmother in the horribly small country town of Wabash, Illinois. Because of the Depression , Mary Alice is sent to live there while her family goes through their own rough time in Chicago. She is forced to adapt to the totally new life style of her grandmother which some would not wish on their worst enemies. Her grandmother has a very rugged way of going about things, that creates quite a stir in this little community. Before long, Mary Alice gets accustomed to her grandmothers tricks and schemes against the towns people and realizes country life isn't that bad after all. I couldn't put this book down the first time I read it because the author writes about their adventures so vividly and exciting. Each trick they play on the town keeps the reader in suspense for the next clever and humorous adventures to come. This book is a laugh-out-loud kind of book so be prepared. This book would be a great book for children to understand the struggles in forming a good relationship between Grandchildren and Grandparents.
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Summary: This book is funny!
Review: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck is about the humorous adventures of Mary Alice, an average 15-year old girl from Chicago, and her wacky grandmother, Grandma Dowdel. Mary Alice has to live with Grandma Dowdel for a year because her parents had to move into a tiny apartment and don't have enough room for her. The story takes place in Grandma's country town in 1937.
One scene I thought was funny happens on Halloween night when some boys come to wreck Grandma's outhouse (or privy) but she is ready for them. She sets a trap for them and pours glue on a boy's head. When the boys are gone, Grandma looks around the yard and finds a knife with one of the boy's initials on it. The next day Grandma goes to Mary Alice's school for a Halloween party and serves pie. Mary Alice and Grandma see the boy that Grandma poured glue on. When he comes for a piece of pie, Grandma gets out his knife and cuts him a piece with it. He is scared and angry and runs away.
I liked this book because a lot of crazy things happen such as after an artist rents a room from Grandma. One Sunday when Mary Alice and her boyfriend are doing homework, the artist is painting a naked lady in the attic. A big snake that Grandma has to keep birds away falls on the naked lady while she is posing. She runs screaming down the stairs, out the door and down the street. When Grandma sees what has happened, this is what she does.
'"That's too good a show to keep to ourselves," Grandma said. With the thought, she was through the front door and out in the front yard. Planting her house shoes, she jammed the Winchester into her shoulder, aimed high, and squeezed off both barrels. The world exploded. Birds rose shrieking from the trees, and the whole town woke with a start.'
The Grandma Dowdel character is hilarious. Grandma always does things she is not supposed to do and is not afraid of anyone or anything. Here is another example from the story. After making the town's men pay unreasonably high prices for soup to make money for Armistice Day, one of the Auxiliary ladies says this to Grandma: "I'm here to tell you that you're twice as bald-faced and brazen and, yes, I have to say shameless as the rest of us girls put together. In the presence of these witnesses I'm on record for saying you outdo the most two-faced, two-fisted shortchanger, flimflam artist and full-time extortionist anybody ever saw working this part of the country. And all I have to say is, God bless you for your good work"....... "Did your late husband go to war?" "Only with me," Grandma said, "and he lost every time." If you are a person who likes to laugh, likes good storytelling and wild characters you will like this book.
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Summary: A book for children THAT adults will love
Review: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck was read to "ME" by my ten year old Granddaughter while I was visiting with her.
What a fabulous book.......yes, this children's book will make you laugh at the comments about Grandma; this book will teach you how "grand" is the difference between all of US; this book makes your mind wonder to your own childhood memories of your Grandma.
At the end I cried...........YEP!! I cried.
A Year Down Yonder is a short book with a BIG BIG PUNCH to your heart!!!
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: A Year Down Yonder takes place in 1937 and Mary Alice's life is turned upside down due to the recession. Her dad loses his job in Chicago and she has to go stay with her feisty grandmother in a small hick-town. Grandma Dowdel is an isolated woman, but one thing Mary Alice does know about her grandmother is she never knows what kind of scheme she will plan next. As this grandmother and granddaughter spend time together, they experience some interesting episodes and develop a loving relationship. Mary Alice also discovers that behind these outlandish schemes Grandma Dowdel has a good motive to help other people of the community. Richard Peck turns Mary Alice's difficult situation into an amusing story with laugh-out-loud humor. Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel's sense of humor is expressed through their witty perception of the other characters. The reader is left in suspense wondering what kind of chaos this grandmother and granddaughter will create next. I highly recommend this Newbery Medal winning book to examine a different kind of relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: I liked the second book in this series even more than the first becuase it was funnier, catchier and the ending was very happy and nice! In both of the books, it is written from Grandma Dowdel's point of view. She is the funniest, wackiest, coolest Granny in the world...if she really exsisted. I hope that one day not too long from now, a third book will come out and if not, the definetely a movie. Out of all the books I have ever read, these two just about top them all. If I were to suggest any book ever, it would ahve to be one of these. Sometime in the near future, if I have the time, I would love to read these two great books again!!!
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Summary: A Year Down Yonder
Review: In this book Mary Alice goes to live with her grandmother, who is different from any other grandmother I know. It turns out to be a whole year full of surprises, you can never guess what Mary Alice's grandmother will do next. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Kelsay's Book Review
Review: The year is 1937 and the depression has hit many familys including the family of Mary Alice. Her father has lost his job, his brother is forced to move out west to plant trees for the civilian corps and her parents are forced to move into a dumpy one bedroom apartment. Mary Alice walks off the train form chicago with two thoughts in her mind and two items in her hand.....
The best things about this book are how it explains the life after the depression in a small country town, how her grandmother is so weird, also all the grandmothers schemes and how the writting was easy to understand. No really long paragraphs and no boring parts. This book was very dramatic, and great!
I reccomend this book to ages 9- 13 it was really enjoyable.
I hope you love the book!
M.S. Rox
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