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A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.

Peck, Richard, 1934-2018 (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0141303522
  • ISBN: 9780141303529
  • Physical Description: 148 pages, 14 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
750L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5 5 27940.
Awards Note:
National Book Award Finalist, 1998.
Newbery Honor Book, 1999.

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Subject:
Newbery honor book.
Newbery honor book > 1999.
Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Country life > Illinois > Juvenile fiction.
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of > Elementary > 2010-2011.
Newbery Medal.
Illinois > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Marion Library JUV PEC (Text) 37810433783833 Juvenile Fiction Checked out 08/12/2026

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