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,...
It is 1958, and a new family has moved in next door to Grandma Dowdel: a Methodist minister and his wife and three kids. Soon Mrs. Dowdel will work her particular brand of charm -- or medicine, depending on who you're asking -- on all of them. As Christmas rolls around, the...