Richard Peck

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The Best Man

Richard Peck

Newbery Medalist Richard Peck tells a story of small-town life, gay marriage, and everyday heroes in this novel for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jack Gantos.Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in s...

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Published: Sep 2017

A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Moder...

Richard Peck

Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable—their grandmother!

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Published: Oct 2000

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known fo...

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Published: Dec 2002

Amanda/Miranda

Richard Peck

Your future lies beyond a mountain of ice, where you will die, and live again.' The wisewoman's prophecy disturbs Miranda, a maidservant who bears an uncanny resemblance to her rich and arrogant mistress, Amanda Whitwell. Thrust into ...

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Published: Jun 2001

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

In this novel set during the Great Depression, 15-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her grandmother in Illinois after her father loses his job. This is a sequel to A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO, but here Mary Alice’s brother, J...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

A Long Way from Chicago

Richard Peck

Each year, city kids Joey and Mary Alice travel from their home in Chicago to spend part of the summer with their grandmother in rural Illinois. In eight short stories, one for each visit, Joey and Mary Alice come to appreciate their ...

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Published: May 2005

Secrets at Sea

Richard Peck

In the beloved tradition of The Borrowers, The Tale of Desperaux, and The Cricket in Times Square, here is an irresistible adventure story of the tiny individuals who secretly live among us humans.Helena is the oldest of four mouse si...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Teacher's Funeral

Richard Peck

When 15-year-old Russell Culver's mean old teacher drops dead shortly before school starts in August of 1904, he thinks it could be an opportunity for him to leave his Indiana farm and ride the rails out west for rollicking adventure....

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Published: Jan 2007

Here Lies the Librarian

Richard Peck

Fourteen-year-old tomboy Peewee would rather tinker with cars than wear dresses or go to school, but she's in for the ride of her life when a quartet of spunky librarians arrive in her tiny Indiana town to re-open the library and tran...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

A Season of Gifts

Richard Peck

The return of one of children's literature's most memorable characters is a gift indeed. The eccentric, forceful, big-hearted Grandma Dowdel is the star of the Newbery Medal–winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor–winning A L...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail...

Richard Peck

Set off on an amazing quest with this lovable orphaned mouse. The tiniest mouse in the Royal Mews is such a mystery he doesn’t even know his own name! He scampers off on a epic adventure in and around Buckingham Palace with a plan...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail...

Richard Peck

Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is at his very best in this fast-paced mystery adventure. Fans of The Tale of Desperaux, A Little Princess, and Stuart Little will all be captivated by this memorable story of a lovable orphan...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

Ghosts I Have Been

Richard Peck

Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble. No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen. Then Blossom herself is stunned, because her lie turns out to...

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Published: Apr 2001

On The Wings of Heroes

Richard Peck

Davy Bowman's dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davy's brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has invaded Davy's homefront boyho...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Ghost Belonged to Me

Richard Peck

Bestselling children's author Richard Peck presents the first in a quartet of Blossom Culp adventures, available for the first time in Yearling.

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Published: Sep 1997

Fair Weather

Richard Peck

Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Expositio...

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Published: Mar 2003

The Teacher's Funeral

Richard Peck

Now that Russell's teacher's done passed away, maybe Hominy Ridge School will be shut down for good and he can light out for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing mac...

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Published: May 2006

Something for Joey (Bantam Starfire B...

Richard Peck

Together, they won college football's highest award.This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college foo...

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Published: Mar 1983

Here Lies the Librarian

Richard Peck

Peewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dreams of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young l...

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Published: Sep 2007

The River Between Us

Richard Peck

The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the ...

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Published: Apr 2005

A Season of Gifts

Richard Peck

One of the most adored characters in childrenÕs literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery AwardÐwinning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery HonorÐwinning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turns ...

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Published: Oct 2010

Are You in the House Alone?

Richard Peck

A sixteen-year-old girl with a steady boyfriend suddenly begins receiving threatening phone calls while she is babysitting and anonymous notes in her high school locker.

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Published: Apr 2000

Final Solution

Richard Peck

For years universities have been restive sounding boards for those who talk of revolution, of a new system, of freedom for every man. This chilling tale begins with a university, and a student riot — only this time the riot beco...

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Published: Mar 1995

Secrets at Sea

Richard Peck

The adorable tale of a family of mice stowaways on an adventurous ship's journeyIn the beloved tradition of The Borrowers, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Cricket in Times Square, here is an irresistible adventure story about the tiny...

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Published: Oct 2012
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