A year down yonder
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Audio : Listening Library,
2000.
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| Summary: | During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. |
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| Item Description: | Compact discs. Unabridged. Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. |
| Physical Description: | 3 audio discs (3 hr., 24 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Awards: | Newbery Medal, 2001. |
| Production Credits: | Produced and directed by Karen Pearlman. |
| ISBN: | 0807211699 9780807211694 1400084962 9781400084968 |
| Author Notes: | He stopped teaching in 1971 to write a novel. His first book, Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, was published in 1972 and was adapted as the 1992 film Gas Food Lodging. He wrote more than 40 books for both adults and young adults including Amanda/Miranda, Those Summer Girls I Never Met, The River Between Us, A Long Way from Chicago, A Season of Gifts, The Teacher's Funeral, Fair Weather, Here Lies the Librarian, On the Wings of Heroes, and The Best Man. A Year down Yonder won the Newbery Medal in 2001 and Are You in the House Alone? won an Edgar Award. The Ghost Belonged to Me was adapted into the film Child of Glass. He received the MAE Award in 1990 and the National Humanities Medal in 2002. He died following a long battle with cancer on May 23, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) |
