01435cam a2200229 4500 144430678 TxAuBib 20070917120000.0 060922s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9934159 9780803725188 0803725183 TxAuBib Peck, Richard. A Year Down Yonder. The sequel to Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. New York, New York 10014 : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000. 130p. Like so many others in 1937, Mary Alice's dad has lost his job and she's sent to spend the year with scrappy, scheming Grandma Dowdel. Though past summers with her grandmother had been almost too packed with surprises, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice now feels she's much too grown-up for this no-movie-theater, everyone-knows-your-business hick town. But what follows is a year of moonlit adventures, naked postmistresses, a would-be thug done in by a pot of homemade glue, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in most unusual (and hilarious) ways. Mary Alice does some growing up after all, and the year turns out to be packed with drama -- and a nuptial happy ending (when Mary Alice marries the most sought-after boy in town). 20100709. TXFLO