Summary: Two siblings, Joey and Mary Alice, live in Chicago. They go to visit their grandma every summer. Their grandma lived in a tiny town near St. Louis, a town that is very different than their own. Joey and Mary Alice’s grandma was a very bold woman. She was tricky and always new what she wanted. During their first few visits to their grandmother they was young and didn’t understand the significant. However, as Joey and Mary Alice grew they slowly began to love traveling to the tiny town to have one of a kind adventure with their grandma. One their first trip their grandma hosted a funeral for an outlaw at her house. The situation got a little out of hand when the cat crawled in the casket and lead everyone but grandma to believe the
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She took them finishing on morning. They snuck onto private property, stole a boat and saw the sheriff and his men singing and dancing drunk while in their underwear outside. They illegally caught tons of fish with a fish trap. Half of the fist were cooked for an extremely old lady whom grandma use to work for and the other half of fish were used to feed the drifters in the town. The town was against drifters and that night while grandma was feeding them the sheriff stopped by. He tried to put a stop to grandmas good deed. She quickly brought up what she had seen earlier that day and the sheriff reluctantly backed …show more content…
The Centennial Celebration was upon them. The bankers wife’s father was being honored for being the oldest person in town from the civil war. Joey and grandma set out on a mission without Mary Alice. They went and visited Uncle Grady, a Mexican war veteran, which makes him an older veteran than the bankers wife’s father. The set things up and return home, Mary Alice still no where to be seen. The Centennial Celebration was upon then and grandma takes Joey to the talent show, to his surprise one of the acts was Mary Alice, dancing with another guy. They were so wonderful they won first place! Joey couldn’t of been happier for her. Then later that day in the parade they set up their own float with Uncle Grady. This sets off a huge fight between the two war
She took them finishing on morning. They snuck onto private property, stole a boat and saw the sheriff and his men singing and dancing drunk while in their underwear outside. They illegally caught tons of fish with a fish trap. Half of the fist were cooked for an extremely old lady whom grandma use to work for and the other half of fish were used to feed the drifters in the town. The town was against drifters and that night while grandma was feeding them the sheriff stopped by. He tried to put a stop to grandmas good deed. She quickly brought up what she had seen earlier that day and the sheriff reluctantly backed …show more content…
The Centennial Celebration was upon them. The bankers wife’s father was being honored for being the oldest person in town from the civil war. Joey and grandma set out on a mission without Mary Alice. They went and visited Uncle Grady, a Mexican war veteran, which makes him an older veteran than the bankers wife’s father. The set things up and return home, Mary Alice still no where to be seen. The Centennial Celebration was upon then and grandma takes Joey to the talent show, to his surprise one of the acts was Mary Alice, dancing with another guy. They were so wonderful they won first place! Joey couldn’t of been happier for her. Then later that day in the parade they set up their own float with Uncle Grady. This sets off a huge fight between the two war