A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories
(1998)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/PECK,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1998]
©1998
©1998
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
148 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0803722907, 0141303522 (pbk.) :, 9780141303529 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 1999 Newbery Honor Book Award
Prologue -- Shotgun Cheatham's last night above ground -- The mouse in the milk -- A one-woman crime wave -- The day of judgement -- The phantom brakeman -- Things with wings -- Centennial summer -- The troop train
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother
Prequel to: A year down yonder
Also published: New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2000, c1998 (148 p.)
750
750L