A Long Way from Chicago
- ISBN-10
- 1536414115
- ISBN-13
- 9781536414110
- Series
- A Long Way From Chicago
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-10
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Author
- Richard Peck
Description
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.
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