A year down yonder
By: Richard Peck.
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Grandmothers -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Country life -- Illinois -- Fiction; Illinois -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Newbery Medal, 2001
Sequel to: A long way from Chicago.