01725cam a2200421 4500 298629308 TxAuBib 20020515120000.0 001026t20001998||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780141303529 $5.99 0141303522 $5.99 9780803722903 hc 15.99 0803722907 hc 15.99 9780439227551 0439227550 9780142401101 0142401102 (OCoLC)45231986 OCO OCO NCM TxAuBib Peck, Richard, 1934- A long way from Chicago / Richard Peck. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2000. ©1998. 148, 14 p. ; 20 cm. Grandma Dowdel ; ; 1 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. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. 20020516. Newbery Honor Book, 1999. National Book Award Finalist, 1998. A copy presented to the Sutherlin Branch Library in honor of Rachel Houseman's Bat Mitzvah by Beth & James Houseman. Grandmothers Juvenile fiction. Depressions 1929 Juvenile fiction. Country life Illinois Juvenile fiction. Newbery Medal. Illinois Juvenile fiction. Grandma Dowdel ; ; 1.