Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother!
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This is an unusual book, but if, like me, you have a sense of humour, you'll love reading it. -- The Daily Telegraph, 9/9/00
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Joey and his little sister are not too excited about their first visit to Grandma Dowdell in smalltown Illinois. She's an old lady - how can she possibly entertain them for a whole week! But from the moment they step off the train from Chicago, they know they had Grandma all wrong. What follows, over seven annual visits , is a hilarious and often touching account of a childhood spent with a larger than life grandmother. If she isn't holding her nasty neighbours at gunpoint, or catching the local sherriff in his underwear, Grandma Dowdell is doing a spot of poaching or cooking up a storm in her kitchen. Joey and Mary Alice observe all, and learn a thing or two about themselves in the process ...Narrated by Joey, this is an unmissable novel - to be read and loved for years to come.
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Von MFS
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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!
Von twilliam
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Hörkassette
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 .
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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.
Von Paul Wettin
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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.
Von no
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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!
Von "nik13"
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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.
Von Ein Kunde
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
"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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WoW-I Could'nt put it down!
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... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
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A Hilarious Look Into The Past!
This is a great story! My 5th grade class that thinks they are too "COOL" to enjoy anything short of MTV, just loved it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
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Review of a Long Way from Chicago by: Adam Kuerbitz.
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Dezember 1999 von Adam Kuerbitz
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Review of a Long Way from Chicago by: Adam Kuerbitz.
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Dezember 1999 von Adam Kuerbitz
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A Long Way From Chicago
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
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