A Year Down Yonder illustrator-Pete Oswald & Aaron Spurgeon and -- by giving them

and -- by giving them dreams show them how their wishes could come true

and the contents of a ballet bag

her ex-best friend

Did you know that the average eight-year-old is about five times as tall as this book

A Year Down Yonder illustrator-Pete Oswald & Aaron Spurgeon and -- by giving themIt was within the pages of Richard Peck's Newbery Honor winning A Long Way from Chicago that Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel first made their captivating debut. Now they're back for more astonishing, laugh out loud tales when fifteen year old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Expect moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.