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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Thorndike Press Large Print Young Adult Series)
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Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Largeprint
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 191
Publication Date: February 28, 2001
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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.
August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. Richard Peck lives in New York City.
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Rating:  - Fantastic Young Adult Book!!
This book is a great read for ages 12-14, but I would recomend it to anyone. This book deals with family relationships that seem a little odd at first, but by the end, the reader sees that it doesn't matter how different you may be, family is family, and those relationships are important. In this book, the children's grandmother is a little unconventional, but she still loves her grandchildren, even if she has strange ways of showing it. The children in the book learn to accept and appreciate their ... Read More
Rating: - A delighful book of adventures that brought back memories
This book is superb and will bring back memories to all children who spent time with a feisty grandmother. I am one of them. Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel are in their early double digits in years and live in Chicago. Every year they leave the city and spend the summer with their grandmother in a small town. The timeframe is during the depression of the 1930's, so there is little in the way of extra.
Grandma is a hard working woman who takes nothing from anybody. When the local set of brothers ... Read More
Rating: - Read A Long Way from Chicago Today!
I just read the book A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. The book is the forerunner to A Year Down Yonder. This book is about a boy named Joey who, along with his sister, visit their grandmother every summer. This is a very interesting book because each chapter is telling a different story from a different summer.
There are eight chapters and each one is from a different year. My favorite chapter is The Day of Judgment. In this chapter, Grandma Dowdel is asked to bake a pie for the county ... Read More
Rating: - A Long Way From Chicago
This book and it's sequel "A Year Down Yonder" are two of the most delightful books I have read in a long time. It is the story of two children from Chicago who spent time each summer with their grandmother, Grandma Dowdle, in the country. Their adventures are exciting and funny but each teaches a unique principle. I laughed a lot reading this book. Now as I go through my day-to-day life, I quite often think of Grandma Dowdle and the lessons I learned from her. This is a book written for adolescents but ... Read More
Rating: - A Heart Warming and Delightful Tale
Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel are sent "to the sticks" each summer for a week.Their parents say that they are old enough to spend time with their grandmother; Mary Alice suspects they want to have time to themselves. Each chapter in this book features a different week spanning a time period from the late 1920's to the early 1930's. Grandma is gruff and no-nonsense; and she also has a heart of gold. This delightful unabridged spoken word title is a book that the entire family will enjoy.
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