Oval: A Season 
of Gifts

Richard Peck

Kathy Jones, Library Media Specialist

West View LibraryLiterature 
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February 2 — The Viper’s Nest: 39 Clues #7 
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February 9 — Eleventh Grade Burns: Vladimir Tod #4
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February 12 — The Lightning Thief
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March 5 — Alice in Wonderland
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March 15 — Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel
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March 16 — Vampire Diaries The Return: Shadow Souls 
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April 2 — Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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June 30 — Eclipse
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August 24 — Hunger Games Book 3
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Grandma Dowdel is back!!

 

 

Head back to the wonderful character of Grandma Dowdel.

 

In this third novel, it is 1958 and a family has moved in next door to her. They are poor as church mice, appropriate since the father is a Methodist pastor. The children include Bob, who immediately falls prey to the town bullies in remarkable fashion. There is his older sister Phyllis, who is obsessed with Elvis and with one of the bullies who bears a resemblance to The King. And then there is his younger sister, Ruth Ann, who is a little lost until she meet Grandma Dowdel.

 

This delightful novel tells the story of the year the family spends next door to Grandma Dowdel who insists that she is neither neighborly or church going, yet manages to always be both.