Peck, Richard       <br/><br/>
Long Way From Chicago  a novel in stories   Print 
 A Long Way From Chicago 
Richard Peck 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York   Dial Books for Young Readers  1998 
 - 148 p.  22 cm. 
 - Living in Chicago Series   Book 1  . <br/><br/> Newberry Honor Book. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803722907 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Great Depression.--Juvenile fiction.--1929<br/>Country life--Juvenile fiction.--Illinois
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Illinois--Juvenile fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>jPec   17