num_pages: 4
description: 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 Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk.August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma to trespass, pinch property, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry--all in one day.And there's more--much more--as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's, each one funnier and more surprising than the year before. In the grand storytelling tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannelly O'Connor, Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. And year round, you are sure to enjoy your stay with them.
language: English
title: A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
titlecomplete: A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
genres: Fiction, Historical, Family, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 33920
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