A Season of Gifts

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Peck, Richard, date.

A season of gifts / Richard Peck.

p. cm.

A companion novel to A long way from Chicago and A year down yonder. Summary: Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

ISBN: 978-1-101-66442-1

[1. Neighbors—Fiction. 2. Moving, Household—Fiction. 3. Illinois—History—20th century—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.] 1. Title.

PZ7.P338Sd 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2008048050