A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck that won the Newbery Medal in 2001. It is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, which itself received a Newbery Honor.
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“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they dont fall out they let them live another year.”
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