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Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume Book 3
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.