A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
	List Price:   $6.99 Unit Price:   $5.59 You Save:   $1.40 (20%) 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
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
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.