Richard Peck
4) The best man
Author
Description
Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget.
Author
Description
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
Author
Formats
Description
Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice, from Chicago, visit Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town. But the town isn't so sleepy and Grandma is far from typical. From seeing their first corpse, to helping Grandma trespass, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry, Joey and Mary Alice have nine summers they'll never forget.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Description
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma to trespass, pinch property, poach, catch the sheriff...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.