A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
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What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice — two city slickers from Chicago — make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn’t resting simple.
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 hungry — all in one day. And there’s more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma’s — each one more amusing than the year before — in self-contained chapters that readers can delight in as fleeting tales or take together for a rollicking excellent novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O’Connor, well loved leader Richard Peck has made a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. Richard Peck lives in New York City.
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For read aloud my teacher read this but we changed to a different book because it was so dull and you could,nt even know what was going on in the chapter book. So don’t ever start to read this tale because it would take time away from books that are excellent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Recommendation
I recommend this book for two reasons. The first one is that it shows a lot about doing things that you don�t want to but must do. �Why do we have to go to grandma�s house it�s not honest,� Joe and Mary-Alice questioned. The second reason that I like the book is that it is about having friends but leaving them when you have to place for trip at your grandma�s house. �I miss all of my friends back home,� is what Mary-Alice said. This book also has a lot of action such as this �Somebody on horseback had blown up grandma�s mailbox sky high.� In conclusion, I reflect this book is a fantastic book to read when you have time, I liked it and I reflect you will too.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The novel was ok . It wasn’t the best book i read,but it still caught my attention.Because of the events that took place in ever chapter.The chapters were amusing ,weird and some where even seriouse.The chapters kept me reading for more hopeing the next chapter was just as appealing as the last . the book is not for people that want a action pack book .
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
A girl and a boy learn how vital it is to make your own fun.They go to there grandma’s house every summer.Each year they go it gets more fun.The first few summers though were not so fun because there was not much to do but work.After a while they ongoing finding things to do.One thing they liked to do was go to the coffee shop in talk.Another favorite activity was when grandma ongoing taking them to lots of different places, such as fairs,picnics,fishing. When grandma brought them places like that they were lucky.So I reflect it was an okay tale.But it could have been better if there was more action and purpose to the book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I am going to read this book for BOOK REPORT this month so i can’t wait based on what you all said.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5