Name: A season of gifts
ISBN: 9780803730823

Richard Peck

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

A season of gifts

Sarah Sammis

What follows is a bunch of vignettes throughout the remaining months of the year. They're promised as both heartwarming and entertaining from the blurb. I found neither to be true. They are odd at best. They have a similar vibe to The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs (1973) but without the supernatural aspect, the overall tone is off-putting.

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