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A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories
- Title
- A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.
- Author
- Peck, Richard, 1934-2018.
- Publication
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1998]
- ©1998
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 148 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
- Series Statement
- Grandma Dowdel ; 1
- Peck, Richard, 1934-2018. Grandma Dowdel ; 1.
- Subject
- 1929
- Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction
- Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction
- Country life > Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers > Fiction
- Depressions > 1929 > Fiction
- Country life > Illinois > Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION > Family > Multigenerational
- JUVENILE FICTION > Historical > 20th Century. > United States
- Country life
- Depressions
- Grandmothers
- Illinois > Juvenile fiction
- Illinois > Fiction
- Illinois
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- Sequel: A year down yonder.
- Audience (note)
- Middle School.
- 750
- Awards (note)
- Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1999
- Contents
- Prologue -- Shotgun Cheatham's last night above ground -- The mouse in the milk -- A one-woman crime wave -- The day of judgment -- The phantom brakeman -- Things with wings -- Centennial summer -- The troop train.
- Call Number
- J FIC P
- ISBN
- 0803722907
- 9780803722903
- LCCN
- 98010953
- OCLC
- 38249685
- Author
- Peck, Richard, 1934-2018.
- Title
- A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1998]
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Grandma Dowdel ; 1Peck, Richard, 1934-2018. Grandma Dowdel ; 1.
- Audience
- Middle School.750 Lexile.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 5.0 Quiz: 27940.Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.0 5.0 27940.Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.6 10 Quiz: 17319 Guided reading level: V.
- Awards
- Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1999
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1929
- Other Form:
- Online version: Peck, Richard, 1934-2018. Long way from Chicago. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, ©1998 (OCoLC)607126610Online version: Peck, Richard, 1934-2018. Long way from Chicago. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, ©1998 (OCoLC)608944347
- Research Call Number
- J FIC P