A year down yonder

By Richard Peck

Subjects: Vie rurale, Grandmothers, Country life, Grands-me res, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Depressions, Fiction, Litte rature de jeunesse anglaise, Crises e conomiques

Description: In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.