Richard Peck
Library author-member Richard Peck is the 2001 recipient of the John Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the most distinguished book for children or young adults. Peck's A Year Down Yonder tells the Depression-era story of 15-year-old Mary Alice, who is sent from Chicago to rural Illinois to spend a year with her feisty grandmother.
Reviewers have praised "these hilarious stories that rest solidly within the American literary tradition of Mark Twain. . . .Readers will gain historical perspective from this lively picture of the Depression years."
Mr. Peck has researched many of his more than thirty books in the Library. "The New York Society Library is a treasure to me," he says.
NYSL Books:
- Peck, Richard, A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories Juv-F P & Juv-Aud P (1998)
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
- Peck, Richard, A season of gifts Juv-F P (2009)
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.
- Peck, Richard, A year down yonder YA-F P & Juv-Aud P (2000)
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.
- Peck, Richard, Are you in the house alone?
- Peck, Richard, Dreadful future of Blossom Culp YA-F P (2001)
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.
- Peck, Richard, Fair weather: a novel Juv-F P (2001)
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.
- Peck, Richard, Ghost belonged to me Juv-F P (1997)
In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.
- Peck, Richard, Ghosts I have been Juv-F P (2001)
Blossom Culp's gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures.
- Peck, Richard, Great interactive dream machine: another adventure in cyberspace Juv-F P (1996)
Josh Lewis is unwillingly drawn into the computer experiments of Aaron, his friend and fellow classmate at an exclusive New York private school, and the two find themselves uncontrollably transported through space and time.
- Peck, Richard, Here lies the librarian YA-F P (2006)
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
- Peck, Richard, Lost in cyberspace Juv-F P (1995)
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home situation.
- Peck, Richard, On the wings of heroes Juv-F P (2007)
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.
- Peck, Richard, Past, perfect, present tense: new and collected stories YA-F P (2004)
A collection of short stories, including two previously unpublished ones, that deal with the way things could be.
- Peck, Richard, Representing Super Doll. Juv-F P Stack 8 (1974)
After being involved in the brittle, superficial world of a beauty contest, a country girl appreciates even more the solid values of her Indiana farm life.
- Peck, Richard, Rver between us YA-F P (2003)
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.
- Peck, Richard, Secrets at sea: a novel Juv-F P (2011)
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 at remaining hidden.
- Peck, Richard, Teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts YA-F P (2004)
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
- Peck, Richard, Voices after midnight: a novel Juv-F P (1989)
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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