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A Long Way from Chicago
A Long Way from Chicago
Author: Richard Peck
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...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780613300117
ISBN-10: 0613300114
Publication Date: 3/2001
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
Book Type: School Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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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....


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