{"product_id":"a-season-of-gifts","title":"A Season of Gifts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peck, Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Puffin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 14-10-2010\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142417294\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nOne of the most adored characters in children's literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning\u003cbr\u003e\nA Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning\u003cbr\u003e\nA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n-This is one of Peck+s best novels yet-and that+s saying something.+-\u003cbr\u003e\nKirkus Reviews, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nRICHARD 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nMrs. Dowdel\u003cbr\u003e\nOne evening we were just settling around the supper table. There were some slices of ham from somewhere. Mother had pulled together a potato salad out of three potatoes. We’d just joined hands. Dad began, “For what we are about to receive—”\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen an almighty explosion rocked the room. Our kitchen clock stopped, and the box of matches jumped off the stove. Every nesting bird in the county took flight.\u003cbr\u003e\nRussians, we thought, and without a Civil Defense bomb shelter for miles. Another explosion erupted and bounced off every house from here to the grain elevator.\u003cbr\u003e\nRuth Ann slid off her chair and was at the kitchen door. We all followed. Now Mrs. Dowdel, gray in the gloaming, loomed out from around her cobhouse. In one of her hands hung a double-barreled shotgun, an old-time Winchester 21, from the look of it. Both barrels smoked.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn her other fist she carried a pair of headless rats. They hung by their tails, and they were good-sized, almost cat-sized.\u003cbr\u003e\nShe lumbered up to her cauldron and swung the rats onto the white embers beneath. As a family, we turned away just as they burst into flame.\u003cbr\u003e\nAlso by Richard Peck\u003cbr\u003e\nNOVELS FOR YOUNG ADULTS\u003cbr\u003e\nAmanda\/Miranda\u003cbr\u003e\nAre You in the House Alone?\u003cbr\u003e\nBel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats\u003cbr\u003e\nBlossom Culp and the Sleep of Death\u003cbr\u003e\nClose Enough to Touch\u003cbr\u003e\nDon’t Look and It Won’t Hurt\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp\u003cbr\u003e\nDreamland Lake\u003cbr\u003e\nFair Weather\u003cbr\u003e\nFather Figure\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Ghost Belonged to Me\u003cbr\u003e\nGhosts I Have Been\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Great Interactive Dream Machine\u003cbr\u003e\nHere Lies the Librarian\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Last Safe Place on Earth\u003cbr\u003e\nA Long Way from Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\nLost in Cyberspace\u003cbr\u003e\nOn the Wings of Heroes\u003cbr\u003e\nPrincess Ashley\u003cbr\u003e\nRemembering the Good Times\u003cbr\u003e\nRepresenting Super Doll\u003cbr\u003e\nThe River Between Us\u003cbr\u003e\nSecrets of the Shopping Mall\u003cbr\u003e\nStrays Like Us\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Teacher’s Funeral\u003cbr\u003e\nThose Summer Girls I Never Met\u003cbr\u003e\nThrough a Brief Darkness\u003cbr\u003e\nUnfinished Portrait of Jessica\u003cbr\u003e\nVoices After Midnight\u003cbr\u003e\nA Year Down Yonder\u003cbr\u003e\nNOVELS FOR ADULTS\u003cbr\u003e\nAmanda\/Miranda\u003cbr\u003e\nLondon Holiday\u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Time\u003cbr\u003e\nThis Family of Women\u003cbr\u003e\nSHORT STORIES\u003cbr\u003e\nPast Perfect, Present Tense\u003cbr\u003e\nPICTURE BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\nMonster Night at Grandma’s House\u003cbr\u003e\nNONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\nAnonymously Yours\u003cbr\u003e\nInvitations to the World\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRICHARD PECK\u003cbr\u003e\nA Season of Gifts\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Last House in Town\u003cbr\u003e\nCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\nLocked and Loaded\u003cbr\u003e\nYou could see from here the house was haunted. Its crooked old lightning rods pointed bony fingers at the sky. It hadn’t had a lick of paint since VJ Day, maybe the war before that. A porch sagged off the side. The kitchen screen door hung from a hinge. Only the snowball bushes crowding its foundations seemed to hold the place up.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt night, lights moved from room to room. 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