Posts Tagged ‘Richard Peck’

Book Review: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Here’s my review of A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck.
While this is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, it can easily be read and enjoyed on its own. Richard Peck writes the adventures of Mary Alice, spending a year away from her home in depression-era Chicago at her grandmother’s house in the [...]

Book Review: A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck

Grandma Dowdel’s back, only this time she’s known as Mrs. Dowdel to the Methodist preacher’s family that just moved in next door. The family, which includes three children, has been relocated from Terre Haute, Indiana to take over what is to be a new Methodist church but what is now a run-down building with no [...]