Richard Peck, in A Year Down Yonder, continues the story about Mary Alice when, in 1937, she moves in with her grandmother Dowdell, in this story of the Depression, small town life, and the life forming events, initiated in Long Way from Chicago.
When Mary Alice's father loses his job, their children go elsewhere. Mary Alice learns more about her grandmother's character than she first knew. A woman who has a huge dominating personality but with a hidden soft side. A woman for practical jokes as well as a practical life.
This Newbery Honor book is warm, witty, moving, upbeat telling of Depression era life. Other stories in this vein are the Soup books by Robert Newton Peck.
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