BOOK: A long way from Chicago by Peck

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Peck, Richard._A long way from Chicago_.Dial, 1998
[0-8037-2290-7]
Here we meet Joey, his sister, Mary Alice, and their grandmother.
This book is told as a series of stories that happened over their
many summers of visiting their colorful grandmother on the farm
during the Depression years.  I n this 148 page book, the reader
gets a close feeling for these three and the interesting people who
live in Grandmother's town.  You can see why the author wrote _A
year down yonder_ which covered only one summer.  That
Newbery book is a much tighter, closer knit story, but both of
these books are an excellent addition to most collections.


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