Peck, Richard

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Mindscapes

Eighty-six poems representing viewpoints or observations on a variety of current topics.

Secrets of the shopping mall

Two eighth-grade loners decide to take up residence in a department store. Little do they know that theirs is not an original idea.

A Long Way From Chicago

Ghosts I have been

Sounds and silences

A collection of American and English poetry about such facets of modern life as sonic booms, conscientious objectors, psychedelic images, and loneliness.

A Year Down Yonder

A season of gifts

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.
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A year down yonder

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
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A year down yonder

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Voices after Midnight

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.SUBJECTS: SUBJECTS: Time travel--Fiction , Brothers and sisters , HF , New York (NY) , UNITED STATES - HISTORY - FICTION , Siblings , Fiction , Mystery , Space and time , Mystery and detective stories.

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