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A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel In Stories (Puffin Modern Classics),Used
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This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the largerthanlife Grandma DowdelWhat happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alicetwo city slickers from Chicagomake 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 Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back.August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungryall in one day.And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma'seach one funnier than the year beforein selfcontained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a riproaringly good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.Newbery Honor WinnerNational Book Award FinalistALA Best Book for Young AdultsALA Notable BookNew York Times Best SellerA rollicking celebration of an eccentric grandmother and childhood memories.School Library Journal (starred review)A novel that skillfully captures the nuances of smalltown life [] Remarkable and fine.Kirkus (starred review)Fresh, warm and anything but ordinary.Publishers Weekly
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