Richard Peck

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

A Novel in Stories

A Long Way from Chicago

When Archer is in sixth grade, his beloved uncle Paul marries another man--Archer's favorite student teacher. But that's getting ahead of the story, and a wonderful story it is.

The Best Man

Set in a rural farm town in 1904, Russell is hopeful that they will close the school down now that their teacher has died, but when a replacement is named and it is Russell's sister, the two know that they are going to have quite an eventful year together as Russell tries to sabotage her plans at every turn.

A Comedy in Three Parts

The Teacher's Funeral

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.

A season of gifts

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. An ALA Notable Book & Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

The River Between Us

Thirteen-year-old Alexander Armsworth sees lights in the barn, is identified by Blossom Culp's spiritualist mother as gifted, and begins a series of Mississippi River adventures accompanied by his aged Uncle Miles and a curious female ghost.

The Ghost Belonged to Me

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.

Are You in the House Alone?

A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her 60 years on the British throne, in this new adventure by a Newbery Medalist. Illustrations.

A Novel

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail

Sophomore loner Kerry is overjoyed when three popular senior girls pick her to be in their clique, until a shocking accident sets off a string of supernatural occurrences that become more and more threatening.

Three Quarters Dead

Because these two girls look alike, even though one is servant to the other, Miranda assumes the identity of Amanda even after the sinking of the Titanic, their passage to America. Reprint.

Amanda/Miranda

In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts to remain hidden. By a Newbery Medalist and multiple award-winning author.

Secrets at Sea

Blossom, high-school freshman and possessor of second sight, helps an Egyptian princess, dead for 3500 years, to regain her tomb, and in addition saves a suffragette school teacher from losing her job in 1914.

Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death

Here Lies the Librarian

Blossom, not the most popular member of her freshman class in 1914, travels ahead seventy years, and returns in time to make Halloween a memorable night for her classmates and teachers.

The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

Presents a collection of short stories that deal with the ways things could be, including "The Electric Summer" and "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground."

Past Perfect, Present Tense

Daytime at Grandma's house is fine, but bedtime is terrifying when a monster seems to be about.

Monster Night at Grandma's House

In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.

Fair Weather

When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the small town also feel as if they don't belong.

Strays Like Us

A teenage girl struggles to understand her place within her family and in the world.

Don't Look and It Won't Hurt

Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.

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