A Long Way From Chicago Author:Richard Peck Each year, city kids Joey and Mary Alice travel from their home in Chicago to spend part of the summer with their grandmother in rural Illinois. In eight short stories, one for each visit, Joey and Mary Alice come to appreciate their rather wily grandmother and life in a small town.
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 corpse, and he isn't resting easy....