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A year down yonder / Richard Peck.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780142300701
- Physical Description: 130 pages, 16 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. |
| Target Audience Note: | 610 Lexile. 670L Lexile |
| Awards Note: | Newbery Medal, 2000. |
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| Subject: | Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction. Country life > Illinois > Juvenile fiction. Illinois > Juvenile fiction. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Brazil PL - Brazil | JUVENILE PECK (Text)
Autographed Copy: Author Signed Copy - "for the readers - Richard Peck Summer 2003"
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38160000506798 | Youth Services | Available | - |
| Culver Community High School | F PEC (Text) | 72456100018647 | F | Available | - |
| Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville | j FIC PECK (Text) | 33946004842774 | Newbery Award Winners | Available | - |
| Kendallville PL - Kendallville Main Branch | KID FICTION PECK NEWBERY.2001 (Text) | 37516001975281 | Kid Fiction | Available | - |
| Linden Carnegie PL - Linden | J FIC PEC#2 (Text) | 34239000270714 | Children's Library, Lower Level | Available | - |
| Morgan Co PL - Morgantown Branch | J FIC PEC (Text) | 78551000374348 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| North Webster Comm. PL - North Webster | J PEC (Text) | 72436000037019 | J Fiction | Available | - |
| Pike Co PL - Petersburg Main Library | JF PECK (Text)
AR Level: 4.0 |
38650833377490 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Royal Center-Boone Twp PL - Royal Center | JF PEC (Text) | 75091000014431 | JF - Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Rushville PL - Rushville | J FIC PEC (Text) | 38520000438476 | Childrens' Room | Available | - |
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RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott OâDell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacherâs Funeral. He was the first childrenâs author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist. Â
