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Title: A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories by Richard Peck ISBN: 0-14-130352-2 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (97 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!!!
Comment: I read this book to my 9 year old after reading the sequel, A Year Down Yonder. It was as great as that one! It takes place from 1929 to around the mid 1930s. Each chapter covers one year, telling a story about the week that Joey and Mary Alice spend each summer with Grandma Dowdel. The stories are funny, sometimes touching. My daughter thought A Year Down Yonder was more interesting, but I think that's because the focus was on a girl, rather than a boy. We highly recommend this book to anyone, boy or girl, ages 9 and up, especially the middle schoolers, which can be a hard age to reach in terms of reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A One Woman Crime Wave
Comment: It seems that GrandMa Dowdel lives in her own little world. She apparently disdains contact with her neighbors and thinks them all to be 'horse's patooties'. Once you get to know her better, you learn that her worst enemy may in fact be her best friend. The way she cons and browbeats the town banker into coughing back up the house recently foreclosed upon, free and clear, well it must be read to be enjoyed fully. Each chapter, a week the kids are 'dumped on Gandma so Mom & Dad can go fishing', reveals another action packed adventure in the constantly turning mischief mill that is Grandma Dowdel's mind. I was given this book by my ten year old son after he finished it in record time, and I knocked it off in just one day. I cried at the end, as the boy, now a man heading off to war is on the troop train. He telegrammed his Depression-era Grandmother he would merely pass through without stopping, and after many delays, is treated to a heart warming experience I'll let author Richard Peck handle in his inimitable style.
Rating: 4
Summary: Independent Reading Review
Comment: Dear Amazon,
The book, A Long Way from Chicago, by Richard Peck, is a fantastic novel for people that just want to have fun reading.The three main characters, Grandma Dowdel, Mary-Alice, and Joey each have their own virtues that stick out in my mind. Grandma's stretching of the truth makes her two grandchildren doubt how safe they really are with her. When a local gets killed many townspeople tell of old time stories of how "Shotgun Cheatham" god his name. Grandma Dowdel wants to settle the mystery of this man and let him rest in peace so she dicides to hold a wake at her house. During this time some wild things occur which could drive any reader to keep turning this books pages. The target audience for this book is more for young teens and kids to read, becuase the way the characters act in certain positions they are put in. I would recommend this novel, I definitely enjoyed it!
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Title: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck, Don Freeman ISBN: 0142300705 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000) by Christopher Paul Curtis ISBN: 0440413281 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo ISBN: 0763616052 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0440418518 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689817215 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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