A year down yonder /
Richard Peck.
- Scholastic Book Club ed.
- New York : Scholastic, Inc, 2001, 2000.
- 130 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Newbery Medal, 2001
0439325439
Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction. Country life--Illinois--Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers--Fiction. Depressions--1929--Fiction. Country life--Illinois--Fiction.