Like Grandma Dowdel's prize-winning gooseberry pie, this satire on small-town etiquette is fresh, warm and anything but ordinary.
Readers will be eager to join the trio of Grandma, Joey and Mary Alice on such escapades as preparing an impressive funeral for Shotgun Cheatham, catching fish from a stolen boat and arranging the elopement of Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs. In eight hilarious episodes spanning the years 1929-1942, she plots outlandish schemes to even the score with various colorful members of her community, including a teenaged vandal, a drunken sheriff and a well-to-do banker. She was so big, and the town was so small""), Grandma continually astounds her citified grandchildren by stretching the boundaries of truth. A Long Way from Chicago Sep-1998 Book - 1 Meet the unforgettable Grandma Dowdel Each summer over the nine years of the Depression, Joey and his sister, Mary Alice - two city slickers from Chicago - make their annual visit to Grandma Dowdels sleepy Illinois town. A woman as ""old as the hills,"" ""tough as an old boot,"" and larger than life (""We could hardly see her town because of Grandma. In a series of related short stories, siblings Joey and Mary Alice from Chicago spend a week each summer with their eccentric grandmother in small-town Illinois. Although the narrator, Joey, and his younger sister, Mary Alice, live in the Windy city during the reign of Al Capone and Bugs Moran, most of their adventures occur ""a long way from Chicago,"" during their annual down-state visits with Grandma Dowdel. Peck (Strays Like Us) first created the inimitable central figure of this novel in a previously published short story. A Long Way From Chicago book by Richard Peck Children's Books > Children's Humor Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 18.59 Paperback 3.59 - 8.99 School & Library Binding 4.39 - 5.19 Library Binding - Select Condition Like New 4.79 Very Good - Good 4.19 Acceptable 3.
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