A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

A Year Down Yonder is about Mary Alice spending a year with her grandmother.  No one likes Mary Alice's grandma.  The town Mary Alice's grandma lives in is very small.  At the school, kids that are in different grades are all together.  Mary Alice gets jealous when the Christmas pageant comes around and other girls have bigger and better costumes.  Then, a new boy comes around and Mary Alice likes him, but how can she invite him over when her grandmother is so loopy?  Read the book to find out!
                                                                       

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