A Year Down Yonder
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell), she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy), she learns to drive shift in a truck (illegally), she saves a life (directly connected to being able to drive, thus proving something), she takes a bus ride to another town (in order to understand what it feels like to be from "elsewhere"), she meets a boy (who truly is from "elsewhere"), but mostly she hangs out with her friends: Patty, Hector, Lenny, and Phil. Their paths cross. Their stories crisscross. And in Lynne Rae Perkins's remarkable book, a girl and her wish grow up. Illustrated throughout with black–and–white pictures, comics, and photographs by the author.
Ages 10+
| Country | USA | 
| Author | Lynne Rae Perkins | 
| Binding | Kindle Edition | 
| Edition | Reprint | 
| EISBN | 9780062062901 | 
| Format | Kindle eBook | 
| Label | Greenwillow Books | 
| Manufacturer | Greenwillow Books | 
| NumberOfPages | 372 | 
| PublicationDate | 2010-11-16 | 
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books | 
| ReleaseDate | 2010-11-16 | 
| Studio | Greenwillow Books |