A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck is a light hearted and humorous story about two children and their crazy adventures with their grandmother. Set in rural Illinois, Mary Alice and Joey visit their eccentric grandmother every summer, leaving city life behind in Chicago, and beginning their usual summer adventures. Joey and Mary Alice begin their first summer with their grandmother by hosting a wake and sharing their excitement about seeing their first “stiff”. For several summers after that Joey and Mary Alice share it with their grandmother, finding adventures everywhere. This was an amazing story of connected summers full of adventures. The writing is very detailed and imaginative which makes reading it very quick and pleasurable. I would love to use this book with my students and I could use this novel to prompt many lessons. Great book!
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