This is the story of a brother and sister (Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel)
who spend one week every summer with their grandma. Each chapter takes place in a different year, and slowly
the kids get to know their grandma better.
The best part of this book is how the kids grow from thinking their grandma is crazy and dangerous
(when she uses a shotgun and a corpse to scare a city slicker) to crazy and criminal (when she forges
Abraham Lincoln's initials on a stovepipe hat).
Though she claims to dislike everybody in the town, Grandma Dowdel helps a lot of people. You learn Grandma's
ways as Joey and Mary Alice do.
