A year down yonder

Title: A year down yonder

Author: Richard Peck

Publishing Information:Puffin Books

Pages:130

Genre: Humor

Summary: This is about a girl, Mary Alice who is sent to leave with her grandma during tough times. Her parents can't find any work so they send her to her grandma for a year so that they might find work and bring her back. This is a story about how just grow to love a crazy grandma who would do anything for anyone but she does not want any one to know that. Grandma plays tricks on people and checks on people and makes sure there is always food on the table or food for others. She steals things she needs but pays them back in other ways. Mary Alice is slightly embarrassed to start of with but learns to love her grandma for who she is.

Reaction: That Grandma is Crazy!

Problems: This gives great example of stealing but she pays them back in other ways but some children might not read it as such

Recommendation: For any one that has had a grandma that they did not want to claim in public.