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What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Peck, R. Peck
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Scholastic, Inc., Tandem Library
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780606197694
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“You wouldn't think we'd have to leave Chicago to see a dead body.”
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