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 Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights
back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach,
catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one
day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to
Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained
chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a
rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark
Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a
memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are
larger than life and twice as entertaining.