A long way from Chicago
Subtitle: a novel in stories
By: Richard Peck.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780803722903
Subjects: Grandmothers -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Country life -- Illinois -- Fiction; Illinois -- Fiction
Description: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Notes: Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1999
Sequel: A year down yonder.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Shotgun Cheatham's last night above ground (1929); title: The mouse in the milk (1930); title: A one-woman crime wave (1931); title: The day of judgment (1932); title: The phantom brakeman (1933); title: Things with wings (1934); title: Centennial summer (1935); title: The troop train (1942)