And in those years, Joey and Mary Alice get to see and help Grandma give a funeral for Shotgun Cheatham, the town reprobate get even with the Cowgill boys for their vandalism trap catfish to feed the traveling unemployed men hit hard by the Depression try to win the pie contest at the county fair assist Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs to elope and get married ala Romeo and Juliet style use the local rummage sale to keep Mrs. In 1929, nine-year-old Joey Dowdel and his seven-year-old sister Mary Alice, who live in Chicago, IL, make the first of seven annual trips to spend a week with their Grandma Dowdel in southern Illinois, somewhere between Chicago and St. A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (published in 1998 by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 345 Hudson St., New York City, NY 10014). (1=nothing objectionable 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms 3=some cursing or profanity 4=a lot of cursing or profanity 5=obscenity and/or vulgarity)įor more information e-mail Richard. Book: A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
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