| Description |
130 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. |
| Summary |
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 4.0 44671. |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal, 2001 |
| Subject |
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
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Country life -- Illinois -- Fiction.
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Illinois -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0439321972 |
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0439325439 |
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9780439325431 |
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