Books like A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Mary Alice is a typical teenager revisiting a summer from her childhood, full of small dramas and family stories. At fifteen, she is thrown into a whole year living with her feisty Grandma Dowdel, a woman renowned for shaking up neighbors and everyone else in the town. The story poses the simple questionβhow will life with Grandma turn out? It is best answered only by experience, inviting readers into a world of humorous mischief, tradition, and the enduring bonds of family.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Coming of Age/Childhood Coming of Age
Authors: Richard Peck
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