A Newbery Honor Book A summer they'll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--visit Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find that it's far from sleepy...and Grandma is far...
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Joey recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister Mary Alice during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel. A Newbery Honor Book.
In recent years, the Young Adult genre has both expanded and matured. Thorndike Press offers this series to make the best of the Young Adult genre available to young readers in Large Print.What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago --...