A long way from Chicago
a novel in stories
by Richard Peck and R. Peck
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A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
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Juvenile Fiction - Family - Siblings, Juvenile Fiction - Short Stories, Juvenile Fiction - Lifestyles - Country Life, Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Depressions, Grandmothers, Country life, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, historical fiction, Newbery Honor, Large type books, Family, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Historical, Multigenerational, 20th Century, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Depressions, fiction, Illinois, fiction, Country life, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:750, lexile_range:701-800, age:min:9, age:max:13, grade:min:5, grade:max:6, Adolescence, fictionPlaces
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
March 2001, Thorndike Press
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A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories
October 1, 2000, Puffin
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Wo na te yi de nai nai: A long way from Chicago
2000, Taiwan dong fang chu ban she
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A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories
2000, Scholastic, Scholastic, Inc.
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A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories
1998, Dial Books for Young Readers
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Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1999
Sequel: A year down yonder.
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What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma to trespass, pinch property, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more -- much more -- as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's, each one funnier and more surprising than the year before. In the grand storytelling tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. And year round, you are sure to enjoy your stay with them. - Back cover.
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