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A Season Of Gifts (2009)

by Richard Peck(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0803730829 (ISBN13: 9780803730823)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Dial

series

A Long Way from Chicago

review 1: In 1958 a preacher and his family move to a small Illinois town, right next door to Mrs. Dowdel, the town curmudgeon. The seasons pass and as Christmas nears, Mrs. Dowdel shows her neighbors and the town, gifts can come in the unlikeliest forms.The story is told by the preachers twelve year old son Bob and is very humorous.This is a young adult book, but it's an interesting and fun read for adults too, that will take them back to simpler times.
review 2: I've got a real soft spot for the character Mrs. Dowdel, whom I equally want to be, live next door to and adopt as my grandmother. She's thrifty, kind, generous, hard working and an unusual caretaker of her fellows. She doesn't truck any nonsense, the quality in her I perhaps like best. A Season of Gifts is par... moret of trilogy that includes A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way From Chicago, both of which I loved. A Season of Gifts takes place nearly 20 years after the first two books. I wish there were more in this series, and I'd love to know who inspired the author, Richard Peck, to create Mrs. Dowdel. less

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