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Author Richard Peck at Main Library
 Thursday, September 27, 07
7 P.M.
at
Main Library.
Meet Newbery Medalist Richard Peck as he discusses his books. He is the author of many award-winning titles, including A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder. Mr. Peck is one of America’s most highly respected writers for youth. There will be a book signing after his presentation.
Penguiln Books Biography: Richard Peck, |
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 A year down yonder
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Sequel to: A long way from Chicago. Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. |
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 A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Year after year, Joey and Mary Alice go to visit their Grandma in her quiet town in Illinois, but with every summer that passes, things become increasingly odd in this collection of amusing adventure stories.
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
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 Are you in the house alone?
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Gail Osburne's normal adolescent problems with family and friends in Connecticut suburbia pale in significance when she is stalked by a relentless figure of horrifying menace
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 Strays like us /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Dumped at the house of her Aunt Fay after a lifetime spent following her mother from one faceless city to another, Molly believes her new home is also temporary and enters a reluctant relationship with her neighbor, another stray like herself. When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the small town also feel as if they don't belong. |
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Strays like us /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
(Check Catalog)
Dumped at the house of her Aunt Fay after a lifetime spent following her mother from one faceless city to another, Molly believes her new home is also temporary and enters a reluctant relationship with her neighbor, another stray like herself. When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the small town also feel as if they don't belong. |
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 Amanda/Miranda /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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In 1911 in England, eighteen-year-old Mary Cooke is hired as personal maid to the willful and arrogant Amanda Whitwell and is astonished to find that her new employer is her near-double, a coincidence that has lasting consequences for Mary, especially when she accompanies Amanda on the Titanic's fateful voyage.Because these two girls look alike, even though one is servant to the other, Miranda assumes the identity of Amanda even after the sinking of the Titanic, their passage to America |
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 Remembering the good times /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Trav, Kate, and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures himself relentlessly to succeed, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his parents and the world.
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 Fair weather : a novel /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone. |
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 The dreadful future of Blossom Culp /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Blossom, not the most popular member of her freshman class in 1914, travels ahead seventy years, and returns in time to make Halloween a memorable night for her classmates and teachers.
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 Monster night at Grandma's house /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Daytime at Grandma's house is fine, but bedtime is terrifying when a monster seems to be about. Additional Authors: Freeman, Don, 1908-1978, ill. |
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 The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
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 Here lies the librarian /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
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 On the wings of heroes /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.
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 The river between us /
by Peck, Richard, 1934-
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During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
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