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Summary: A Must Read, Cant-put-it-down, wonderful, funny book!
Review: "A Long Way From Chicago" is a hilarious book. While some (including me) may find this book an easy read, it is a fully enjoyable one! Each chapter of the book is a different summer visit to Grandma's Illinois town by Joey and Mary-Alice. Each of the seven summers gets more and more funny and funny, and more and more outragous. I especially liked the fact that Grandma can make anyone, even the Sheriff, do what ever she likes. I also enjoyed all of the larger-than-life characters Peck creates. "A Long Way From Chicago" is deffinetly a must read!
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Summary: WoW-I Could'nt put it down!
Review: I had to pick a historical fiction read for my college class, so I picked A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO. To be honest, the cover of the book did not "tempt" me, but I started my assignment anyway! Well, I really could'nt put it down. I finished the entire book in less than 3 hours. Granny Dowdel keeps her grandkids coming back for more, summer after summer. She outwits the officials in the small, drab, little town and prides herself for teaching them some long, over-due lessons. Each chapter deals with a specific year-a specific summer "lesson"-that not only is meant to show the higher-mighter class of the town the power of the "underdogs" but also has a lasting, touching effect on Granny Dowdel's grandchildren-they will never view her in the same way again! A must-read for any age!
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Summary: A Hilarious Look Into The Past!
Review: This is a great story! My 5th grade class that thinks they are too "COOL" to enjoy anything short of MTV, just loved it. Daily they begged to hear what Grandma would do each "year" while her grandchildren visited. Although she didn't exactly follow the law in her mischiefs, she always had an underlying "right" reason for them.The author gives a hilarious account of Grandma's life and also gives us a glimpse into the past and how Middle America lived. After each chapter we enjoyed, as a class, discussing the similarities and differences to life today. This was a pleasure to read and I reccommend it to young adults to the young at heart.
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Summary: Review of a Long Way from Chicago by: Adam Kuerbitz.
Review: Grandma Dowdel is a one women crime wave or so the sherriff calls her. When Joey and his sister Mary Alice visit her each summer they do something new. Through the years of 1929-1942, Grandma, Joey, and Mary Alice terrorize a newspaper reporter and stand up to the Cowgill boys with just a bottle of milk and a cherrybomb. Then in 1931 they steal a boat, fish with illegal fish traps, catch the whole buisness community of the town in their underwear, and feed the hungry drifters from the Great Deppresion in one day! Joey also flies for the first time in 1934. Then in the last chapter Joey sees his Grandmother waving to him from her house while passing through her town in a train on his way to fight in World War 2. I thought this was a very good and interesting book after my school librarian Mrs. Warner got me started on the first chapter.
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Summary: A Long Way From Chicago
Review: This book is a perfect read aloud for elementary and middle school students. Each week my fifth graders come to the library begging for more "Grandma stories." Anyone with the least bit eccentric grandmother could identify with the book's main character. The humor in this story is absolutely contageous and you will not finish a chapter without a smile. It's a good read for all ages! Buy this book and ENJOY!
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Summary: Check it out!
Review: I was skeptical at first as to whether I was going to read this book or not. It look all to familiar to the new over-glamoured novels that are just so-so reads in fancy covers. It was short, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to read in between school assignments over the weekend. After the first chapter, I could tell that this book was going to be really good. Somehow, Richard Peck had managed to give a new style to old charm, because the stories reminded me of some other authors writing styles, but with a new twist. The day after I finished, I went online to look for more of his books, in the hopes of finding another winner, and I think that even though other's of his will be good, A Long Way From Chicago will be his best.
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Summary: Didn't Even Finish This Bad Book
Review: For read aloud my teacher read this but we changed to a different book because it was so boring and you could,nt even understand what was going on in the chapter book. So don't ever begin to read this story because it would take time away from books that are good.
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Summary: Great for any age!!
Review: I am 32 years old and read this book for a college level "Children's Literature" course. I not only bought the book for my younger daughter to read at a future date (she's 4), But I bought a couple copies for Christmas gifts!! GREAT BOOK!! Funny and shows that a person isn't always what you expected.
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Summary: The story spans several summers with events of the world
Review: Joe and his sister go to visit Grandma, a tough old woman every summer for several years. Adventure and excitement is lurking around every corner in Grandma's small town; from the dead body of a drunk to the World War 1 flying ace at the fair, this book is phenominal
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Summary: Thank you, Robert Peck, for a masterpiece!
Review: I can't wait to read this book aloud to upper graders! Thank you to Robert Peck for giving us Grandma, with all her spunk and verve. I thought it was especially beautiful watching little bits of Grandma creeping into Mary Alice as she grew up. It is a great, subtle book about intergenerational relationships, but most of all it is a FUNNY book! By the end, I had shed many tears of both laughter and sadness. A Long Way from Chicago captures another time, but the stories and humor are timeless. By the fourth chapter I was reading veeeeeery slowly, because I didn't want it to end!
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