# A Long Way From Chicago

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- Book: [A Long Way From Chicago](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-peck/a-long-way-from-chicago) ([A Long Way From Chicago.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-peck/a-long-way-from-chicago.md))
- Authors: [Richard Peck](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-peck), [Ron McLarty](https://www.bookquiver.com/ron-mclarty)
- Publisher: listening_library
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-03-0724-321-8
- Published: 2005-05-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first...