This book is a companion book to "A Year Down Yonder" and is a Christmas book as all the stories lead up to the Christmas finale. The story is about the indomitable Mrs. Dowdell, an old woman who can wield an axe, shoot her shotgun, can food, and everything else. This is the story about how she helps the new family next door as well as the whole town. It isn't as good as the first book, but all the incidents are interesting and amusing. I think the reader should read the other book first.
Richard Peck captures 1958 pretty well and it is set in a rural Illinois town. I think an older child would get more out of this book. Actually, I think seniors would quite enjoy this as well since they remember 1958.
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