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A Long Way from Chicago

A Long Way from Chicago

Author(s): Richard Peck

Location(s): Illinois

Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical

Era(s): 1929-1942

Every summer, a young brother and sister take the train from their hometown of Chicago to stay with their grandmother in a small town in rural Illinois. A short story cycle with a coming of age theme, A Long Way from Chicago let’s the reader see the children grow up through one short story per summer.

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