Trenton-Mr.+Knepper

= Week 4 Adult: Mike Knepper = Student: Trenton Miller Book Title: //A Long Way from Chicago// Pages Read: 121-148

 In Joey’s last summer at his grandma’s he had gone to the Centennial Celebration. In this Celebration, Joey has to find and convince Uncle Grady Griswold (who is 103 years old) the oldest man in the community to go with him and to show that he is the ”Oldest Settler in the Community”. Uncle Grady later gets into a fight with the 2nd oldest man in the community. I did enjoy this book because I like learning about our history and I like how they did everything without the modern technology that we have today. I think that anyone interested in history should definitely read this book.

I think that Joey started out to be a “city boy” by not knowing anything about the country, but when he is finally ready to enroll in the World War 2 he has done almost everything you can think of for the 1920’s-1930. I feel that Richard Peck was trying to express the old “don’t judge a book by its cover” style of theme. What I do not get is why was “//A One-Woman Crime Wave”// included in the book. I did not really get why it was included in the book. I would of have changed the ending of the book to where he gets a job flying a plane for one of his grandma’s friends instead of him going to the war.

Week 3

= Adult: Mike Knepper = Student: Trenton Miller Book Title: //A Long Way From Chicago// Pages Read 62-121

I grew up in the country so I do not know what city living is like so it is hard for me to connect with Joey. I would like to require his love for airplanes. I think it would be cool to be able to fly in a plane. Our main character is realizing some changes. He does not want to be called “Joe” not “Joey”. He is also realizing that The Great Depression is affecting more and more people. Joey use to hate going to his grandma’s for the summer but now he enjoys it. He is also realizing that his grandma does thinks different than they did in Chicago.

Grandma Dowel is a kind of country person that likes to have fun. If she needs some thing, she will either make do with out or substitute some thing else for it. Grandma Dowel reminds me a lot of my grandpa. My grandpa said that when he was a kid he used a bolt as an axle for a front bike tire instead of a bolt and two lug nuts like we do to day. My grandpa likes to go fishing like Grandma Dowel but he cannot very well because he is legally blind.

Joey is an “average” boy from Chicago and is forced to spend a week threw the summer at his Grandma’s house. At first he hates to even think about going to his grandma’s for the summer. But after just one summer at his grandma’s he is just begging to go back to his grandma’s.

I normally like to go fishing and off roading. So I can relate to the grandma but not too much to the kids. Reading this book makes me want to read more about the Great Depression. Man I dislike reading so much I would rather do work than read.