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Richard Peck A Long Way From Chicago 1999 Newbery Honour Book During several Depression summers, Mary Alice and Joey Dowdel go to live with their grandmother in a small Midwest town. Even though gangsters prowl their home, Chicago, Grandma Dowdel gives them far more adventure and danger. She isn't any ordinary old lady. Feisty and cantankerous, she doesn't take nonsense from anybody. Throughout this amusing book they get up to some hilarious hijinks! A Year Down Yonder 2001 Newbery Medal Winner Joey is too old to visit with Grandma Dowdel anymore, but Mary Alice has been shipped off for a whole year of embarassment, hilarity, fun and God knows what else. How will she survive?