A year down yonder /
Richard Peck.
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000.
- 130 p. ; 22 cm.
Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. Newbery Medal 2001
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Newbery Medal--2001
Grandmothers--Fiction. Depressions--1929--Fiction. Country life--Illinois--Fiction.