Title: A season of gifts
Description: Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Subjects: Neighbors, Humorous stories, Nineteen fifties, Juvenile fiction, Senior women, Illinois, Children of clergy, Older women, Historical fiction, Household Moving, Humorous fiction, Churches, Fifties (20th century), Fiction, History
Places: Illinois
Time periods: 20th century