What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdels seemingly sleepy Illinois town?August 1929 They see their first corpse, and he isnt resting easy.August 1930 The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk.August 1931 Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma to trespass, pinch property, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry--all in one day.And theres more--much more--as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandmas, each one funnier and more surprising than the year before. In the grand storytelling tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannelly OConnor, Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
