A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
Richard Peck
Newbery Medal Winner (2001) Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors—and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. Move to Awards: New York Times BestsellerAn ALA Notable BookAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Best Book of the YearA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
The pacing of this is crazy. It’s going by so fast. I feel like if it just slowed down a tad it would be better
0I’m pretty sure my teacher read this to us in the 6th grade and I was so thrilled to rediscover it now. I specifically remember her explaining to us that The Great War was World War 1 because there hadn’t been a second one yet so there was no need to number them. Anyways…back to reading
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0 0Book 3 read for Booktubeathon 2015. I have wanted to read this book for a very long time. I remember hearing about it when it first came out because it was in one of the Scholastic Book Fairs at my school. I ended up not buying it back then, but the title has stuck with me. Now that I've read it, I loved it! It was geared for elementary or middle grade but was not watered down at all. I loved the characters, especially Grandma Dowdel, but would have liked to see more of some of the secondary characters. I didn't realize this was a sequel until I was halfway through, so now I have to go back and read the 1st and 3rd books.
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