A year down yonder/ Richard Peck
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000
- 130p.
Sequel to A Long Way From Chicago
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.