A Long Way From Chicago
Title | A Long Way From Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Puffin Books |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0141303522 |
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
A Year Down Yonder
Title | A Year Down Yonder PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2002-12-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1440672725 |
A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics)
Title | A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2004-04-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142401102 |
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother!
Chicago
Title | Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Doyle |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466868074 |
On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed. A love letter to Chicago, the Great American City, and a wry account of a young man's coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox history when they had the best outfield in baseball, Brian Doyle's Chicago is a novel that will plunge you into a city you will never forget, and may well wish to visit for the rest of your days.
Fair Weather
Title | Fair Weather PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2003-09-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142500348 |
Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of the age"-a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair. Aunt Euterpe is inviting the Becketts to come for a visit and go to the fair! Award-winning author Richard Peck's fresh, realistic, and fun-filled writing truly brings the World's Fair-and Rosie and her family-to life.
Here Lies the Librarian
Title | Here Lies the Librarian PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803730809 |
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
The Teacher's Funeral
Title | The Teacher's Funeral PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Peck |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006-11-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780142405079 |
If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.