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What Age Is A Year Down Yonder for?
The intended audience for this book is grades 5-8.
How many pages are in the book A Year Down Yonder?
A Year Down Yonder
| First edition (publ. Dial Books) | |
|---|---|
| Author | Richard Peck |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 144 pp (first edition, hardback)130 pp (2000) |
| ISBN | 0803725183 |
What is the name of the town in a year down yonder?
Illinois
The Great Depression is winding down, and fifteen-year-old Mary Alice Dowdel’s parents are in dire financial straits. That’s why she has no choice but to go and stay with her grandmother in small-town Illinois, a place that feels pretty far away from bustling Chicago.
How old was Mary Alice In A Year Down Yonder?
fifteen-year-old
Winner Blurb: This linked series of carefully crafted vignettes is set in rural Illinois during the Depression, when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice leaves Chicago to spend a year with Grandma Dowdel.
What is the book A Year Down Yonder about?
A Year Down Yonder is about a Chicago girl’s year-long stay with her grandmother in a rural town during the height of the Great Depression. At Halloween, Grandma pranks a gang of pranksters by dousing their leader in warm glue when they try to vandalize her cobhouse.
Is the book A year Down Yonder a sequel?
The book, A Year Down Yonder is actually the sequel to our first “Covid Book” called A Long Way From Chicago. The similes, metaphors, hyperboles are wondrous and the boys laughed their way through the entire book!
Who is the leading lady in a year Down Yonder?
Many of my confused feelings about my grandparent were mirrored in that story. And here, in Richard Peck’s 2001 Newbery Medal winner, A Year Down Yonder, I unexpectedly stumbled upon another leading lady, Mary Alice Dowdel, who can’t quite negotiate what it feels like to live with a difficult and outspoken grandmother. Wow.
Where does Mary Alice go in a year Down Yonder?
So, while her brother (featured in the “Newberry Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago”) goes to the Civilian Conservation Corps, Mary Alice is bound “downstate” to spend a year with Grandma Dowdel. It’s 1937, and many Americans are learning that the Great Depression, which began eight years previously, is not over.