Does Mary Alice fit in when she starts school in her grandmother's small town? Why or why not?.Why do you think that is? Do you think a fifteen-year-old girl living in say, 2010, may have reacted differently? Why or why not? (Bonus question: What's the matter with kids today?) Mary Alice doesn't seem to put up much of a fight about going to live with her grandmother even though she's clearly not excited about the idea.If Mary Alice was two years older, could she have gotten a job with the Conservation Corp or would her gender have held her back? How might Mary Alice's life be different if she had been able to go to California to plant trees like Joey?."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Teachers will cherish them as great read-alouds, and older teens will gain historical perspective from this lively picture of the depression years in small-town America. Peck is at his best with these hilarious stories that rest solidly within the American literary tradition of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. But being Grandma's sidekick is always interesting, and by the end of the year, Mary Alice has grown to see the formidable love in the heart of her formidable Grandma. She has to sleep alone in the attic, attend a hick town school where in spite of her worn-out coat she's "the rich girl from Chicago," and be an accomplice in Grandma's outrageous schemes to run the town her own way-and do good while nobody's looking. From the very first moment when she arrives at the depot clutching her Philco portable radio and her cat, Bootsie, Mary Alice knows it won't be easy. But now it's 1937 and Joey has gone off to work for the Civilian Conservation Corps, while 15-year-old Mary Alice has to go stay with Grandma alone-for a whole year, maybe longer.
In the first book, a Newbery Honor winner, Grandma's rampages were seen through the eyes of her grandson Joey, who, with his sister, Mary Alice, was sent down from Chicago for a week every summer to visit. Grandma Dowdel's back! She's just as feisty and terrifying and goodhearted as she was in Richard Peck's A Long Way from Chicago, and every bit as funny.
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