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        <title><![CDATA[Grandma apparently does agree that two wrongs can make a right....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grandma apparently does agree that two wrongs can make a right. Throughout the book she has no problem lying, cheating, and even blackmailing people to get what she wants. However, since her intentions are always good she believes the ends justify the means. For example, she misleads the banker's wife into believing that Abe Lincoln stayed in Effie Wilcox's house in order to keep the bank from repossessing the house and tearing it down. She...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book "A Long Way from Chicago", do you think Grandma agrees with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book "A Long Way from Chicago", do you think Grandma agrees with two wrongs making a right?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 18:28:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where does Grandma Dowdell live in A Long Way from Chicago?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where does Grandma Dowdell live in A Long Way from Chicago?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:53:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Long Way from Chicago (Focus on Reading Study Guide)]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Long Way from Chicago (Focus on Reading Study Guide) (Enhanced eBook)]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Long Way from Chicago", why was the celebration called the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Long Way from Chicago", why was the celebration called the Centennial Celebration?
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        <pubDate>Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:04:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't believe the town where Grandma Dowdell lives is actually named...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't believe the town where Grandma Dowdell lives is actually named in the book.  Joey describes going to her home on the train, "the Wabash Railroad's crack Blue Bird that left Dearborn Station every morning, bound for St. Louis...Grandma lived somewhere in between, in one of those towns the railroad tracks cut in two".  If you look on a map, Dearborn Station is in Chicago, which is in the northeastern corner of Illinois.  St. Louis is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:04:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Traditionally, People "sat up with a corpse through the final night...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, People "sat up with a corpse through the final night before burial".  Grandma is a formidable figure, however, and since Shotgun's body is on display in her living room, most of the people "willing to brave Grandma (just) came and went".  In addition, "Shotgun hadn't been axactly fresh when they discovered his body", and even though every window in the room had been "flung open", there was "a peculiar smell" that could not be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:02:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Joey and Mary Alice found Grandma Dowdel's wedding dress and Grandpa...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Joey and Mary Alice found Grandma Dowdel's wedding dress and Grandpa Dowdel's wedding suit, a stovepipe hat, and an old, tattered quilt. They also find old valentines that Grandma and Grandpa Dowdel had made and given to each other when they were young. Mary Alice wore the dress when she competed in the ballroom dance contest, and Grandma Dowdel used the stovepipe hat and quilt to fool the bank into believing Effy Wilson's house had once...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:56:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Long Way from Chicago", what are the specific items inside the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Long Way from Chicago", what are the specific items inside the trunk that is located in an attic?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:12:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happened once everyone was settled in the living room with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What happened once everyone was settled in the living room with Shotgun's body in the story A Long Way From Chicago?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:28:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grandma catches catfish with the cheese.
Grandma catches the catfish in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grandma catches catfish with the cheese.
Grandma catches the catfish in traps, which are actually illegal in Illinois.  Nonetheless, she has a series of traps set at various places along Salt Creek, which she baits with gobs of cheese "that smelled bad enough to gas a cat".  Mary Alice first discovers the cheese when she goes to the outhouse one morning, and comes out to report that "something died in the cobhouse".  Grandma responds curtly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:36:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Grandma catch with the cheese in A Long Way From Chicago?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Grandma catch with the cheese in A Long Way From Chicago?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:49:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grandma Dowdel commits a whole slew of illegal actions, but she does it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grandma Dowdel commits a whole slew of illegal actions, but she does it for a good cause.  She first steals a boat, which turns out to belong to Sheriff Dickerson.  She then takes Joey and Mary Alice fishing.  Grandma has set fish traps, which is illegal in the state of Illinois.  Grandma Dowdel says that there is no fine for doing so "if you don't get caught". 
Grandma goes through all the trouble of stealing the boat and setting the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:13:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mrs. L.J. Weidenbach, the banker's wife, is a neighbor of Grandma...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mrs. L.J. Weidenbach, the banker's wife, is a neighbor of Grandma Dowdel.  She is a pompous lady, and each time she appears in the narrative, Grandma shrewdly tries to turn her lofty attitude to her advantage.
Mrs. Weidenbach first appears to appeal to Grandma to enter her famous gooseberry pie in the baked goods competition at the county fair.  She herself is being forbidden by her husband from entering her own reknowned bread-and-butter...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:33:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book A Long Way from Chicago, who was Mrs. L.J. Weidenbach?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book A Long Way from Chicago, who was Mrs. L.J. Weidenbach?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:28:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[List at least three of Grandma Dowdel's illegal actions in A Long Way...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[List at least three of Grandma Dowdel's illegal actions in A Long Way From Chicago.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:34:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the novel "A Long Way from Chicago," Joey and Mary Alice make the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the novel "A Long Way from Chicago," Joey and Mary Alice make the train trip to a small town every summer, in August, for seven years, for a week's visit with Grandma Dowdel.  The Depression era story is about how Grandma Dowdel makes people see what is right and wrong.  She has a way of bringing justice in her own unique way.  The idea of the novel though, is the way that Joey and Mary Alice change over those seven years.  At the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I was reading this book and never got what the lesson of the book was? I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was reading this book and never got what the lesson of the book was? I also could not find the main choice the character had to make?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:09:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Often when we are questioned about an antagonist in a story or novel we...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Often when we are questioned about an antagonist in a story or novel we want to know which character is the antagonist.  In &quot;A Long Way From Chicago,&quot; the antagonist isn't a person, or character.  In this novel Peck has created the antagonist of Injustice.  Every summer Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel go to a small town and visit their paternal grandmother.  Grandmother Dowdel believed strongly in justice and throughout the story, if...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:26:35 PST</pubDate>
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