A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck :: A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard PeckThe book A Long Way From Chicago is an adventurous and funny story. The story takes surface at Joey Dowdels Grandmothers farm house in the country. Joey and his sister bloody shame Alice were sent to their grandmothers house during the summer because their parents had to go to Canada for their work. At first, Joey felt uncomfortable with his Grandmother because he had never met her before alone eventually he got to know her and they became close friends.On the first hebdomad at Grandmas, a man named Shotgun Cheatman died. Everyone in the townspeople went to the funeral because he was the well known assistant to the Mayor. The funeral was held in Grandmas house and a creepy thing happened that night when Tom the vomit up crawled inside the casket. The next day, Joey, Mary Alice and Grandma left the house and walked crossways fields of tall grass and cow pies aplenty to Salt Creek to go fishing. They found an old wooden boat and Grandma rowed the boat away into the creek. While on their fishing adventure, they encountered a cottonmouth snake that bring down into the boat and a party of drunken men on shoot down dancing in their underwear. Strange things began to happen the next couple days. First, Joey was in the living room of Grandmas house making a jig saw puzzle. He heard the sound of a horses hooves walkway slowly on the street then the sound stopped in presence of the house and heard someone put something in Grandmas mail box. Joey heard the horse walk away and a little while later Grandmas mailbox blew up. Next, Ms. Wilcoxs outhouse was destroyed by a cherry bomb. Then, a on the spur of the moment mouse was found floating in the bottle of milk that was delivered to the front