For Children

Author	Peck, Richard, 1934-2018.
Title	A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.
Publication Info.	New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998.

Location	Call No.	Status
Children's Fiction	Juv-F P c.2	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	148 p. ; 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.
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.
Subject	Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
	Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Country life -- Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.
Added Title	Long way from Chicago
ISBN	0803722907

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