A Season of Gifts - Softcover

Peck, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142417297 ISBN 13: 9780142417294

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2010

Synopsis

One of the most adored characters in children's literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turns out that her story isn't over. It's now 1958, and a new family has moved in next door to Mrs. Dowdel: a minister and his wife and kids. Soon Mrs. Dowdel will work her particular brand of charm on all of them, and they will quickly discover that the last house in town might also be the most vital.

About this title

Review:

-This is one of Peck+s best novels yet-and that+s saying something.+-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

About the Author:

RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O'Dell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacher's Funeral. He was the first children's author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0142417297
• ISBN 13: 9780142417294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208