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A Year Down Yonder

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 19,090 Ratings and 1,643 Reviews

Book Description
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. 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. But now it's 1937 and Joey has gone ... More
Book Information
PublisherDial Books For Young Readers
BindingHardcover (27 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages130
ISBN-100803725183
ISBN-13978-0803725188
Publication Date10/01/2000
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About Richard Peck (Author) : Richard Peck is a published author and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Richard Peck include Amanda/Miranda, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy i... more
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About Steve Cieslawski (Illustrator) : Steve Cieslawski is a published illustrator of children's books. Published credits of Steve Cieslawski include A Year Down Yonder (Newbery Medal Book), At the Crack of the Bat: Baseball Poems.
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3/21/2010 Lizzie Ross said: Heroine spends a year with her one-of-a-kind grandmother.
tags: I recommend, I read

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1/30/2009 BG Hoover tagged as: I read, I recommend

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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: I Read

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