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A year down yonder

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Year Down Yonder

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Peck,Richard

Source:

Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, p.130 (2000)

Call Number:

Cubb Curr PS3566 .E2526 Y43 2000

URL:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5742736

Keywords:

Country life--Illinois--Fiction, Depressions--1929--Fiction, Grandmothers--Fiction, Illinois--Fiction, Newbery Medal, 2001

Abstract:

Summary: 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:

Lexile measure 610; Ages 9-14; Grade level 4.9; Historical fiction