A Long Way from Chicago
A Novel in Stories
New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2000.
Format: Book
Description: 148 ; 20 cm
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Country life -- Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal -- Juvenile fiction.
Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Country life -- Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal -- Juvenile fiction.
Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 750L
ISBN:
0141303522 (pbk.)
John Newbery Medal Honor, 1999.
National Book Award Finalist, 1998.
National Book Award Finalist, 1998.