by Richard Peck · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439240925
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«A Long Way from Chicago» is Richard Peck's novel in stories, published by Scholastic, Inc. in paperback (148 pages, in English).
Joey and his sister Mary Alice, two children from Chicago, spend every summer with their grandmother Dowdel in a small town in Illinois. Each visit is a self-contained episode: the grandmother outwits the authorities, helps her neighbors, and turns the everyday into comic adventures. The stories portray American rural life and the bond between grandchildren and grandmother.
First installment of the «A Long Way from Chicago» series; finalist for the National Book Award. The work was originally published in 1998.
Recommended for young and preteen readers who enjoy humor and episodic stories about American rural life.
Richard Wayne Peck was an American novelist known for his contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1990.
