01289cam a2200325 4500 4424364 TxAuBib 20030101120000.0 ||||||t20001998||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780141303529 pbk. $4.99 0141303522 pbk. $4.99 TxAuBib Peck, Richard, 1934- A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories / Richard Peck. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2000. ©1998. 148 p., 14 p. ; 20 cm. Prologue -- Shotgun Cheatham's last night above ground -- The mouse in the milk -- A one-woman crime wave -- The day of judgment -- The phantom brakeman -- Things with wings -- Centennial summer -- The troop train. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. Children. 20030101. Newbery Honor Book, 1999. National Book Award Finalist, 1998. Grandmothers. Depressions. Country life. Newbery Medal. Illinois Juvenile fiction. Peck, Richard.