A Long Way from Chicago
by Richard Peck
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ISBN-10: |
0141303522 |
ISBN-13: |
9780141303529 |
Publisher: |
Penguin Group (USA) Inc |
Category: |
Middle School |
Pub. Date: |
October 2000 |
Pages: |
176 |
Format: |
Paperback |
Ages: |
10 to |
Grades: |
5 to |
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Awards |
2000 |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) |
Nominee/Honoree |
2001 |
Young Reader's Choice Award (USA) |
Nominee/Honoree |
2001 |
Beehive Young Adults' Book Award (USA) |
Winner! |
2001 |
SCASL Book Award (South Carolina) (USA) |
Nominee/Honoree |
2001 |
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (USA) |
Nominee/Honoree |
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Subjects |
CHILDREN'S FICTION GRANDPARENTS_FICTION DEPRESSIONS_FICTION ILLINOIS_FICTION COUNTRY LIFE_FICTION |
Description/Notes |
Each summer throughout the nine years of the Great Depression, Joey and his sister Mary Alice from Chicago visit their grandmother's sleepy Illinois town. Each summer they discover a visit to Grandma Dowdel's is far from typical. |