A Long Way from Chicago
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A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
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RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O’Dell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacher’s Funeral. He was the first children’s author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780142401101
- Publication Date
- April 12, 2004
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 1998
- Page Count
- 148
- Word Count
- 35326
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 10 - 14 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 98010953
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 45231986
- Lexile® Level
- 750L
- Scholastic Level
- V
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~R
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 27940
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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