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        <title><![CDATA[Grandma says that sixteen-year old Ernie Cowgill is still in the fourth...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grandma says that sixteen-year old Ernie Cowgill is still in the fourth grade.
Grandma has a propensity to exaggerate, so whether the hapless Ernie Cowgill is really still in the fourth grade or not is unclear.  Whatever the case, it is quite evident that Ernie is not very bright.  The Cowgills are the owners of a dairy farm, and the boys deliver milk and eggs to their customers in a horse-drawn milk wagon.  There are four Cowgill boys -...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Joey had been sitting "wedged in a corner, beginning to doze" at Shotgun...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Joey had been sitting "wedged in a corner, beginning to doze" at Shotgun Cheatham's wake when the commotion began.  The gauze that hung down over the open coffin lid inexplicably began to move.  Grandma "rocketed out of her chair" to get her twelve-gauge Winchester, hollering to the deceased, "Whoa, Shotgun...You've had your time, boy...you don't get no more!"  She then shot both barrels in the general direction of the corpse, causing the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In A Long Way from Chicago, what grade did Grandma say that 16-year old...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In A Long Way from Chicago, what grade did Grandma say that 16-year old Ernie Cowgill was in?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Grandma shot her gun while watching over the coffin, what did Joey...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Grandma shot her gun while watching over the coffin, what did Joey do in A Long Way from Chicago?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:14:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how might the idea of the great depression have influenced the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how might the idea of the great depression have influenced the characters in chapter 1?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does the town play along with the lies Grandma Dowdel tells about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does the town play along with the lies Grandma Dowdel tells about Shotgun Cheatham?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:15:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An annual event is one that takes place once each year. In South Texas,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An annual event is one that takes place once each year. In South Texas, for example, the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show is an annual event. It takes place each year during the same week. In 2010, we will celebrate the 70th Annual Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show. Another example that would be more familiar to more people is the annual event of the ball dropping in Times Square in New York City on New Year's. A non-example of an annual event...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is an annual event?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is an annual event?]]></description>
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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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        <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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        <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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        <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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        <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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        <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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