description: A Long Way from Chicago is a "novel in stories" by Richard Peck. It was awarded the Newberry Honor in 1999. Peck's sequel to this book, A Year Down Yonder, won the Newberry Medal for children's literature in 2001. The stories involve several vacations with their favorite Grandmother. Two children, Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel, spend time every summer with their resilient grandmother in rural Illinois.
language: English
title: A Long Way From Chicago
titlecomplete: A Long Way From Chicago
genres: Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Historical, Family, Young Adult, Humor
ratings_count: 33922
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: Hodder Children's Books