TY - BOOK AU - Peck,Richard TI - A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories AV - PZ7 .L664 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - New York, New York PB - Puffin Books KW - Grandmothers KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - Country life KW - Illinois KW - Newbery Medal N1 - Prologue --; Shotgun Cheatham's last night above ground --; The mouse in the milk --; A one-woman crime wave --; The day of judgment --; The phantom brakeman --; Things with wings --; Centennial summer --; The troop train; 2 N2 - A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother ER -