A long way from Chicago Grandma Dowdel series, book 1
A Newbery Honor Book. A summer they'll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- visit Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find that it's far from sleepy... and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother. From seei...
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| Language: | English |
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2000.
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| Series: | Grandma Dowdel.
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| Summary: | A Newbery Honor Book. A summer they'll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- visit Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find that it's far from sleepy... and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother. From seeing their first corpse (and he isn't resting easy) to helping Grandma trespass, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day -- Joey and Mary Alice have nine summers they'll never forget! "A rollicking celebration of an eccentric grandmother and childhood memories." -- School Library Journal, starred review "Each tale is a small masterpiece of storytelling." -- The Horn Book, starred review "Grandma Dowdel embodies not only the heart of a small town but the spirit of an era gone by... Remarkable and fine." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review. A Newbery Honor Book A National Book Award Finalist An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 527 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| Audience: | Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4 750 |
| ISBN: | 9781101664360 |
| Author Notes: | He stopped teaching in 1971 to write a novel. His first book, Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, was published in 1972 and was adapted as the 1992 film Gas Food Lodging. He wrote more than 40 books for both adults and young adults including Amanda/Miranda, Those Summer Girls I Never Met, The River Between Us, A Long Way from Chicago, A Season of Gifts, The Teacher's Funeral, Fair Weather, Here Lies the Librarian, On the Wings of Heroes, and The Best Man. A Year down Yonder won the Newbery Medal in 2001 and Are You in the House Alone? won an Edgar Award. The Ghost Belonged to Me was adapted into the film Child of Glass. He received the MAE Award in 1990 and the National Humanities Medal in 2002. He died following a long battle with cancer on May 23, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) |
