A Long Way From Chicago
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 229
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: grandmothers, depressions, country life, great depression, 1929-1939, illinois [X], brothers and sisters, historical fiction, chicago (ill.), extreme read-spunk [X], historical fiction
A Year Down Yonder
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.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 213
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: grandmothers, grandparent and child, country life, grandparent-grandchild relationship, illinois [X], extreme read-spunk [X], large type books, great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction, depressions, audiobooks, compact discs