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A Long Way from Chicago
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A Long Way from Chicago is a series of short stories by Richard Peck. Set between the 1920s to 1940s, two children - Joey and Mary Alice - find themselves uprooted every summer from their city-slicker lives in Chicago, in order to live with their eccentric Grandma Dowdel in rural Illinois. While the two are initially not very happy with this arrangement, each summer has some wacky adventure happen, usually instigated by their grandmother. It won the 2001 Newbery Award for children's literature.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In the sequel, A Year Down Yonder, Mary Alice is sent to live with her grandmother for a full year, due to the Great Depression hitting her family hard. Now a teenager, she must learn to survive in a hick town where life is much different than where she grew up. It won the Newbery Medal in 2001A third book, A Season of Gifts, tells the story of a new family who moves in next door to Grandma Dowdel. The protagonist is Bob Barnhart, whose father is the new preacher in town. | |
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Darker and Edgier: To a degree. While A Year Down Yonder isn't all depressing, it is less comical than A Long Way from Chicago and deals with more adult things (Mary Alice having to live away from her family for a full year, the The Great Depression, a tornado, and so on). | |
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Defeat Means Friendship: Subverted in general. Grandma often outwits various townspeople, particularly the snobby Weidenbachs, but she doesn't think any better of them, nor they with her. The best that can be said is that they learn it's better to simply leave her alone, rather than tangle with her. Implied to be the case with Effie Wilcox though, as the two seem to have at least some grudging respect for each other. At least enough for Grandma to get the banker to give Effie her foreclosed house back. | |
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Batman Gambit: Grandma is very good at pulling these. | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The Dowdels in general are pretty snarky. | |
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Cool Old Lady: Grandma Dowdel | |
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