Interest Level
Grades 8 - 12
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.9
Lexile Measure®: 610L
DRA: 50
Guided Reading: V
Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Great Depression
- Extended Families
- Individuality
- Moving
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About This Book
The worst part of the "Roosevelt Recession" in 1937 is that Mary Alice has to spend a year in a rural town with her feisty and conniving Grandma Dowdel. After enduring many outrageous schemes, Mary Alice eventually learns to appreciate her grandmother's wisdom and her ways. This Newbery Medal winner is the hilarious sequel to Peck's celebrated A Long Way From Chicago.About the Authors or Illustrators
Author Richard Peck got his first writing assignment as a soldier in Germany: ghost-writing sermons for chaplains. He has written A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, and Fair Weather, among others, to show the world the real Illinois.
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