This was a satisfying conclusion to Richard Peck's trilogy "A Long Way From Chicago". Joey and Mary Alice have grown up and moved on, leaving Grandma Dowdell alone in her small town. The story is told from the point of view of Bob, a twelve year old preacher's kid that is new in town. We follow ...
I'm going to refrain from rating this book, because honestly, I wanted to quit it the whole time. All the mice are focused on marriage and gossip and such, which isn't my type of thing. The explanation of mice behaviour is interesting. I could see where kids who enjoy stories with anthropomorphic...
Richard Peck invites his older, still young readers on a journey of the self-discovery of a mouse in England. The mouse does not have any real family and does not even have a proper name. The whimsical or fanciful language as well as the snappy dialogue between the characters will keep children i...
The book I read was "Three Quarters Dead" by Richard Peck. The book kind of reminds me of the movie Mean Girls. Where there is three main girls and one that tries to get into their group. Trying and doing everything they tell her to do. Kerry dose everything to become a part of their group. But ...
Richard Peck’s, A Long Way from Chicago is the first book in the trilogy about larger than life character Grandma Dowdel and her grandchildren, Joey and Mary Alice. (The second is A Year Down Yonder and the last is A Season Of Gifts.) Joey and Mary Alice are sent from Chicago to spend the summer...
Blossom is a unique and stubborn girl with the ability to see the past. However, when she sneaks into a house her mother told her not to go to, everything goes wrong and she is sent into the future, from 1914 to present day. Though she makes a friend, everything has changed, and Blossom wants to ...
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck is the story of a boy named Alexander who discovers with some help of his frienemy Blossom that he can communicate with the afterlife and that there is a ghost named Inez and her dog in his family barn. Know he must find out where the ghosts body is and gi...
Sì. Scelgo i libri dal titolo e quindi non potevo perdermi questo libro XDDopo l'ennesimo BEL libro che quasi sicuramente non vedremo mai in Italia ho preso una decisione: se un giorno diventerò sufficientemente ricca (diciamo anche schifosamente ricca.. Del genere che i dubbi esistenziali sono s...
Audience: Older Children, TeensLexile 610The novel is set in 1937 during the depression. 15 year old Mary Alice is forced to leave Chicago because her father is out of work and her parents have to give up their apartment. She arrives by train to her Grandma Dowdel’s sleepy hick town. Upon arr...
This book is about two best friends who find a dead body near a duck pond, which was once called Dreamland Lake.I was excited about reading this book. I first found the book through my library's website over the summer and I finally borrowed it. From the book description, it sounded awesome and d...
Rose lives on a typical Illinois farm of 1893. She, her older sister Lottie, and her younger brother Buster have heard about the fair happening in Chicago, but they never in their lives thought they'd see it themselves. But then Aunt Euterpe shocks the family by first of all sending a letter (a m...
1.This is a junior book, science fiction.2.Josh and Aaron, once best friends, are thrown back together again after Aaron’s plethora of computers cause a pre-summer power outage and introduce Josh to his new cyber world. It’s when Aaron’s wish-granting machine begins to work is when their lives r...