Long Way from Chicago

English

ISBN: 0803722907

EAN: 9780803722903

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational/Juvenile Fiction / Lifestyles / Country Life/Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century/Juvenile Fiction / General/Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 09/30/1998

Age Range: 10-UP

Synopsis: What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdels seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isnt 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 theres more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandmas -- 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 OConnor, 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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Long Way from Chicago

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Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 5.74 inches

Length: 8.54 inches

Weight: 9.77 oz

Pages: 192