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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Newbery Honor Book) Review
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I absolutely LOVE this book. I have read it aloud to students many times and never get tired of it. Grandma Dowdel is, hands down, one of the most memorable characters in children’s literature. She knows how to handle the town’s quirkiest residents, and the town is full of them, not the least of which is Grandma Dowdel herself. Every summer, Joey and Mary Alice get an education they could not possibly get anywhere else when Grandma takes on everyone from an out-of-town reporter who comes snooping, to the sheriff himself. And every summer, Joey and Mary Alice learn a little more about this complex woman, who, at times, is as tough as nails, and then compassionate – but always in a brusque, no-nonsense way. You will laugh out loud, and you’ll be touched. Read this book!
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- ISBN13: 9780803722903
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Newbery Honor Book) Overview
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. Richard Peck lives in New York City.
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