A Peck, Richard 1934-2018 creator text New York Scholastic 2000 First Scholastic printing, September 2002 monographic 130 pages ; 20 cm 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. O 670 Lexile O Raz-Plus Richard Peck Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. Grandmothers Fiction Depressions 1929 Fiction Country life Illinois Fiction PZ7.P338 Yh 2000 813.54 0803725183 DLC 20240108132643.0 2645 eng