A Year Down Yonder

By Richard Peck

Subjects: grade:min:3, award:Newbery_award, lexile:670, Reading Level-Grade 4, lexile_range:601-700, Juvenile, age:min:9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, age:max:12, Reading Level-Grade 5, grade:max:7, Reading Level-Grade 6

Description: Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with feisty Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.