5/10/2023 0 Comments A year down yonder book![]() ![]() Next, Grandma and Mary Alice attend a turkey shoot on Armistice Day at the Abernathy farm. Grandma then saves an otherwise boring school Halloween party by bringing a load of pecan and pumpkin pies. ![]() ![]() Grandma bullies the bully by unhitching Mildred's horse and forcing the girl to walk home without shoes.Īt Halloween, Grandma pranks a gang of pranksters by dousing their leader in warm glue when they try to vandalize her cobhouse. A bully, Mildred, calls Mary Alice the "rich Chicago girl" and rides home with Mary Alice in order to force her to give Mildred a dollar. Grandma immediately enrolls Mary Alice in school, and she is placed in Miss Butler's class. Mary Alice dreads being stuck in a hick town, and she is afraid of her imposing, stern grandmother. The narrator is fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, who is forced to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a small rural town in southern Illinois because her parents cannot afford to keep her. The town is full of eccentric personalities, not the least of which is the grandmother. A Year Down Yonder is about a Chicago girl's year-long stay with her grandmother in a rural town during the height of the Great Depression. ![]()
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