A Long Way From Chicago Author:Richard Peck Read by Ron McLarty — 4 hours 17 minutes, 3 cassettes — Newbery Honor Book — National Book Award Finalist — When Joey and his sister, Mary Alice, travel from their home in Chicago to their Grandmother's small town, they certainly don't expect the crazy adventures they encounter there. Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's, each on... more »e funnier and more surprising than the year before. In the grand storytelling tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Conner, Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.« less
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....