A Year Down Yonder illustrator-Pete Oswald & Aaron Spurgeon and her mom is spending

and her mom is spending more time with an old friend (and maybe love interest

and -- by giving them dreams show them how their wishes could come true

Ellie is on a quest to rebuild her reputation and self-confidence

but Gordon just wants to stand out

her ex-best friend

A Year Down Yonder illustrator-Pete Oswald & Aaron Spurgeon and her mom is spendingIt 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.