Peck, Richard,  1934- <br/><br/>
A long way from Chicago :  a novel in stories / 
Richard Peck. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Dial Books for Young Readers,  c1998. 
 - 148 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Sequel: A year down yonder. 
<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/> Newbery Honor Book, 1999 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803722907 9780803722903 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98010953  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Grandmothers--Fiction.<br/>Depressions--1929--Fiction.<br/>Country life--Illinois--Fiction.<br/>Grandmothers--Fiction.<br/>Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Depressions--1929--Fiction.<br/>Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Country life--Fiction.<br/>Country life--Juvenile fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Illinois--Fiction.<br/>Illinois--Fiction.<br/>Illinois--Juvenile fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.P338  / P366l 1998 PS3566.E2526  / L66 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]