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Summary: A Funny and Good Book
Review: This book was exciting and funny book. I really enjoyed this book. I really liked it because it wasn't boring. It's about these 2 kids named Mary Alice and Joe who becomes Joey. They visit there grandma every year. There he tells a good story every year. There grandma is fat and weird. I recommend this book for people my age.OU rules and so does this book. A VERY GOOD book and team.
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Summary: A Long Way From Chicago
Review: My daugther was given a list by her language arts teacher and was told to read a book a month from the list, and write a summary about the book. Not knowing anything about the book or the author we were both pleasantly suprised! Each chapter in the story leaves you wanting more, wondering what antics grandma is up to next! I collect childrens books both from my childhood and my daughters favorites , and A Long Way From Chicago will be the first in my collection of Richard Peck novels!.
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Summary: Dryden Summer Book Club... Dryden ,New York
Review: Our summer book Club is reading this and getting ready to discuss on August 10th. My son Tucker & I are enjoying reading about Grandma Dowdel ,Joey and Mary Alice. They have such adventures visiting their unique Grandma. She has such character and charm. We will probably make a time line in our journals and graph the favorite chapters. Another activity would be to make similarities and differences of the great depression and Aug. 2000. You could do a Venn diagram and then discuss the results orally. This book had alot of History & humor ,children can learn many facts on the Great Depression.I feel it deserves more honors than Honorable Mention from the Newbery Award. This would be a great read aloud for Intermediate students.It would keep everyone's attention until the bitter end.
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Summary: I had a good cry at the end (and I'm a boy!)
Review: A Long Way from Chicago is a touching and very funny book. The narrator, Joey Dowdel, shares the experiences of visiting his thrifty, hardworking, no-nonsense grandmother. Each chapter tells the adventures his sister and he have with his grandmother during each of seven week-long summer vacations. Long Way takes place during the Great Depression (1929-1935), so I learned some history while enjoying a great story. The coolest part of the book is when Grandma gets Joey a ride in an old biplane; the funniest is when the sheriff and his deputies drunkenly sing about Paddy Murphy while they're wearing only their underwear at the Rod and Gun Club. My favorite character was Grandma Dowdel because of her use of words and the way she loved people without saying it. I didn't pick out this book -- my mom chose it as one of our read-alouds -- but, like everything she picks out, this was really terrific. We shared a good cry at the end because we realized that Grandma is a lot "softer" than her tough words and actions showed. Happy reading!
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Summary: Worthy of the Newbery Honor Medal
Review: Joey and Mary Alice are forced to spent their summers in a small Illinois hick town with their grandma, and as you can imagine these two worldly Chicagoans are expecting to be bored out of their minds, but nothing could be further from the truth. Joey and Mary Alice see a corpse of the first time, watch the town sheriff dance in his underwear and take an airplane ride...but that's not all, something new arises every summer.A quick read-aloud for the home or classroom that will have you laughing and perhaps sheading as tear at the end.
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Summary: A Novel For Bored Poeple
Review: The novel was ok . It wasn't the best book i read,but it still caught my attention.Because of the events that took place in ever chapter.The chapters were funny ,weird and some where even seriouse.The chapters kept me reading for more hopeing the next chapter was just as interesting as the last . the book is not for people that want a action pack book .
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: This book is one that children from 8-80 years of age will enjoy. Each story is hilarious and will bring back fond memories of your own childhood visits to grandparents, etc. A well-deserved Newbury Honor book.
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Summary: A Good Laugh
Review: In the book, A Long Way From Chicago, the Grandmother was an unusual person who lied like it was written on her forehead. The Grandmother was unique because she kept a shotgun in the kitchen for protection even though the town is mellow. She also doesn't really like to were dresses and you usually find her in the kitchen. The way she lies is just incredible she forges famous peoples names on things they could have worn and sells it for money. And she also just plane lies whenever she opens her mouth which is funny. You'll get some good laughs out of it.
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Summary: Very good!
Review: This book is very good. It is the adventures of a kid, his sister, and thier "wierd Grandma". It is like short stories. There is never a dull moment or a part that is not funny! 3 thumbs up! Very god!
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Summary: Cool
Review: I loved this book. I think it was better than Holes, the Medal book. It was funny at times and an all out good book. I think you have to have a weird sense of humor to get it though. 2 people I know read it and didn't like. They both have a normal sense of humor so it sort of proves me right.
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