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Reader reviewed by Briana

B


The book A Long Way From Chicago was very interesting but in an oddly way. If I had to recommend this book to others I would have to say that if you enjoy reading humorous things about the past. Also if you think psychotic grandmas would be interesting to you. But now lets talk about the book. This book A Long Way From Chicago is about these two kids, Joey and Mary Alice who go to visit their grandmother, Mrs.Dowdel. Their grandma lives in Decoder which is not even close to where they live in Chicago. So every summer there parents give them money to pay for a train ticket to go see her. Well Mary Alice did not think so well of her grandma at first because she lies cheats and steals things. I didnt bother Joey so much though because he is a boy and boys are used to that kind of stuff. One of the times they came to visit their grandma there was a fair there, and Mrs. Dowdel wanted to enter in the pie contest. She decided to make a gooseberry pie because it was something most contestants wouldnt make. She wanted to win so bad that she traded name plates Mr. Peckelter. The reason she did this was because he had been making pies for a long time and she had only been making them for a couple months. But it turns out that the pie she made actually won so Mr. Peckelter won the plan ride. So Mrs. Dowdel cheated and took a blue ribbon off her hat and lied to the plane driver to win a free ride. Well grandma was too big for the plane so it wouldnt take off, and Joey wanted to ride in the plane so bad she decided to let him. Even though times are hectic where grandma lives Mary Alice and Joey always seem to be glad to go back and visit her again the next summer.