description: What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visit to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? In the tradition of American humorists Mark Twain and Flannery O'Connor, Richard Peck has created this memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
language: English
title: A Long Way From Chicago
titlecomplete: A Long Way From Chicago
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Family, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 33916
places: Illinois
series: A Long Way from Chicago
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: Listening Library