A Long Way From Chicago and
A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
Prologue,
Long Way from Chicago
Carol Hurst Featured Author: Richard Peck
Random House author page
Mona Kerby's Author Site
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/peck.html
Children's Book Council interview
Scholastic's interview
Great Depression
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page4.htm
http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page5.htm
Thompson submachine gun (Chicago typewriter)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mickay/tommy.htm
"It was always
August when we spent a week with our grandma. I was Joey then, not Joe:
Joey Dowdel, and my sister was Mary Alice. In our first visits we were
still just kids, so we could hardly see her town because of Grandma.
She was so big, and the twon was so small. She was old too, or so we
thought - old as the hills. And tough? She was tough as an old boot, or
so we thought. As the years went by, though, Mary Alice and I grew up,
and though Grandma never changed, we'd seem to see a different woman
every summer.
Now I'm older than Grandma was then, quite a bit older. But as the time gets past me, I seem to remember more and more about those hot summer days and nights, and the last house in town, where Grandma lived. And Grandma. Are all my memories true? Every word, and growing truer with the years."
Now I'm older than Grandma was then, quite a bit older. But as the time gets past me, I seem to remember more and more about those hot summer days and nights, and the last house in town, where Grandma lived. And Grandma. Are all my memories true? Every word, and growing truer with the years."
Web Links
Richard
Peck
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/richard_peck.htmlCarol Hurst Featured Author: Richard Peck
Random House author page
Mona Kerby's Author Site
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/peck.html
Children's Book Council interview
Scholastic's interview
Long Way from Chicago
Chapter 1 (1929)
Chapter 1 (1929)
Great Depression
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page4.htm
http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page5.htm
Thompson submachine gun (Chicago typewriter)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mickay/tommy.htm
Bugs
Moran/Al
Capone
http://www.bugsysclub.com/club/community/info_capone.htm
Wabash
Railroad
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jmohney/wabash_bridge_1904.jpg
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jmohney/new_page_193.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~wabashrr/wrhs.html
Dearborn
Street, Chicago, Illinois circa 1900
http://patsabin.com/illinois/vintage_dearborn.htm
Chapter 2
(1930)
Spirit
of
St. Louishttp://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/stlouis.html
http://www.famousfoto.com/618.htm
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/
http://www.famousfoto.com/618.htm
Tom Mix
http://www.who2.com/tommix.html
Privy photo
http://smokyphotos.com/photo169.htm
Snowball bush
http://www.bushesandshrubs.com/common_names/common_snowball_bush.shtml
Timeline of the Great Depression
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/
Hobo signs and symbols
http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/
Hobo signs and symbols
http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm
Chapter
4 (1932)
Gooseberries
http://users.tijd.com/~tdn12074/frame.html
Burgoo
www.burgoo.org/burgoo.htm
www.angelfire.com/ky/burgoo
definition of "temperance"
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/temperan.htm
Nehi orange soda
http://www.popsoda.com/orangenehi.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt biography
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html
1930 Ford Model A sedan
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/ford3003.htm
http://users.tijd.com/~tdn12074/frame.html
Burgoo
www.burgoo.org/burgoo.htm
www.angelfire.com/ky/burgoo
definition of "temperance"
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/temperan.htm
Chapter 5 (1933)
Nehi orange soda
http://www.popsoda.com/orangenehi.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt biography
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html
1930 Ford Model A sedan
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/ford3003.htm
Chapter 6 (1934)
John
Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One
http://www.geocities.com/hydey6/dillingerpage.html
Dillinger's Terraplane 8
http://home.earthlink.net/~tray001/hudson/dillinger/dillinger.htm
Vampire bat
http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/vampire.htm
John D. Rockefeller and his stovepipe hat
http://www.unog.ch/library/about/rockefel.htm
Abraham Lincoln biography
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
http://www2.powercom.net/~rokats/mexwar3.html
http://www.geocities.com/hydey6/dillingerpage.html
Dillinger's Terraplane 8
http://home.earthlink.net/~tray001/hudson/dillinger/dillinger.htm
Vampire bat
http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/vampire.htm
John D. Rockefeller and his stovepipe hat
http://www.unog.ch/library/about/rockefel.htm
Abraham Lincoln biography
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
Chapter 7 (1935)
Mexican
War uniformhttp://www2.powercom.net/~rokats/mexwar3.html
