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A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.E2526 L66 1998
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.P338 Ll 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peck, Richard, 1934-2018
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions--1929--Fiction.
- Depressions.
- Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Illinois.
- Country life--Juvenile fiction.
- Illinois--Fiction.
- Illinois--Juvenile fiction.
- Country life--Illinois--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 148 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1998]
- Summary:
- A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
- Notes:
- Sequel: A year down yonder.
- "Designed by Debora Smith"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "Jacket painting copyright 1998 by Steve Cieslawski."
- Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1999.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jackets retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 1 is "1" printing.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 has "National Book Award Finalist" on dust jacket.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 has Newberry Honor Book sticker on dust jacket.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 is "14" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0803722907
- OCLC:
- 38249685
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