![]() ![]() ![]() I started reading the first one on the airplane to Las Vegas and finished up A Long Way From Chicago on the way back home a few days later. I remember loving it, and I remember being vaguely aware that this book was a sequel, but I’d never gotten around to reading the first one, until a copy of the two, bound together in a teacher’s edition, showed up on my doorstep, courtesy of Penguin. The BYU library helpfully had all their copies of Newbery books on a big display wall, so I plowed through a number of books I had, embarrassingly, never read, including Bridge to Terabithia and The Giver.Ī Year Down Yonder was also one of them. The summer that Bart and I were engaged, I started reading again in earnest, with a particular focus on the Newbery winners. These are the kind of books I can’t wait to read aloud to my children. ![]() 8/9 of 10: I’d give an 8 to A Long Way From Chicago and a 9 to A Year Down Yonder, but they are both just delightful. ![]()
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