Name: A year down yonder
ISBN: 078623282X

Richard Peck

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially  apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.

A year down yonder

Sarah Sammis

** spoiler alert **
           Richard Peck uses slang that is strongly tied to the region (a small, poor, rural town in Illinois) and to the time period, the Great Depression. He doesn't include a glossary but the words can be understood from context.

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