A Long Way from Chicago Books

A Long Way from Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
A Long Way from Chicago
A Long Way from Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
chapter • 148 Pages
A Long Way from Chicago
Book #1

A Long Way from Chicago

Written by Richard Peck
10 - 14
Reading age
148
Page count
238
Words per page
Apr 12, 2004
Publication date
Paperback
$8.99
$8.58

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.

A Long Way from Chicago Series

Published from 2002 - 2004
2 books
chapter • 148 Pages
A Long Way from Chicago
Paperback
$8.99$8.58
chapter • 130 Pages
A Year Down Yonder
Paperback
$8.99$8.58
Year#TitlePages
20041A Long Way from Chicago148
20022A Year Down Yonder130

The Creative Behind the Books

    Author
    Richard Peck

    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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