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A Year Down Yonder Spies and Political Thrillers Children will love the crispIt 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.