A long way from Chicago a novel in stories
(2000, original release: 1998)
Fiction
Braille
Call Numbers:
KW ASC/J/411/BRAILLE/PECK,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers ; Livonia, Mich. : Transcribed by SEEDLINGS Braille Books for Children, 2000
©1998
©1998
DESCRIPTION
iii, 187 pages of braille ; 28 x 30 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0803722907 (pbk.), 9780803722903 (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 judgment -- 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
750
750L