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  • A Long Way from Chicago

  • A Novel in Stories
  • Written by: Richard Peck
  • Narrated by: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Written by: Richard Peck
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
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What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice - two city slickers from Chicago - make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?

August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk.
August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma to trespass, pinch property, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry - all in one day.

And there's more - much more - as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's, each one funnier and more surprising than the year before. In the grand storytelling tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining. And year round, you are sure to enjoy your stay with them.
©2005 Richard Peck (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
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Funny

An amazing book would recommend to anyone five stars for everything.
Nice and short good for car rides.

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