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  Title

  A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories

  Author

  Peck, Richard, 1934-  

  Publisher:

  Dial Books for Young Readers,

  Pub date:

  c1998.

  Pages:

  148 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0803722907

  • Holdings

    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Youth: Fiction	J PECK	1	Book
    Youth: Storage 2 -- Ask at YS Desk	J PECK	1	Book

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  A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories
  Peck, Richard, 1934-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Peck, Richard, 1934-

  Title:

  A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998.

  Physical description:

  148 p. ; 22 cm.

  Contents:

  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.

  Summary:

  A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

  Children's subject:

  Grandmothers--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Depressions--1929--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Country life--Illinois--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Illinois--Fiction.

  key:

  ocm38249685

  ISBN:

  0803722907