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by Richard Peck
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Each summer over the nine years of the Depression, Joey and his sister Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visit to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find it's far from sleepy and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother.
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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.
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You wouldn't think we'd have to leave Chicago to see a dead body.
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- Title A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
- Author Richard Peck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition later printing
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial Books, New York
- Publication date 2000-10-09
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141303529 / 0141303522
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.06 x 0.5 in (19.66 x 12.85 x 1.27 cm)
- Age range 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 750
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- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Topical: Family
- Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Illinois, Depressions - 1929
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98010953
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 09/25/2000, Page 120
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