Puffin Modern Classics A Long Way from Chicago, (Paperback)

from Mluke04

The style of this book is effective because each story builds the reader's knowledge from the last story. Each chapter is from another year so as the characters grow, the detail in the stories change. The reader gets to know Grandma Dowdel as Joey and Mary Alice get to know her. This is an exampl...

from BookConcierge

Audiobook performed by Ron McLartyWhen Joey was nine and his sister Mary Alice was seven their parents put them on the train to go visit their Grandma Dowdel. They were city kids and you'd think they'd seen everything. But it was over several summer "vacations" in Grandma's sleepy small town in S...

from ChazziFrazz

This has been a charming and delightful read.A series of short stories spanning 1929 to 1942 telling of the yearly summer visits of Joey and Mary Alice to their Grandma's. Being born and raised in Chicago, spending a week in a small whistle stop of a town was a whole different world. Things ran a...

from JordySizemordy

Summary Each chapter in A Long Way From Chicago depicts another summertime shared between two young children and their humorous and unconventional grandmother. She is constantly finding ways to make her grandkids laugh and enjoy each adventure they have. It is important to have fun during the sum...

from aleahmarie

Mrs. Dowdel is no ordinary grandmother. This shotgun wielding, no nonsense grandma is tough as nails and she makes a mean gooseberry pie. Summer visits to their grandmother's house during the 1930s take Joey and his little sister, Mary Alice, a long way from their Chicago home. Initially reluctan...