![]() ![]() Over the years, Peck received many honors and awards including a Newbery for A Year Down Yonder in 2000, a Newbery honor and National Book Award finalist for A Long Way from Chicago in 1999, and the Scott O’ Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2004 for his Civil War-set mystery, The River Between Us. Funny and breezy, many featuring the indomitable Grandma Dowdel, these books are wonderful, light reads to be enjoyed over and over again. ![]() In the late 90s, Peck started writing primarily historical fiction for children, loosely based on his own childhood and family history growing up in Illinois during the 1930s and 1940s. When I explained how much I loved that book and that I had reread it many times, he was amazed that I had even found it and was touched by my love for it. I told him how I discovered his adult book This Family of Women while in middle school, about three generations of one family in San Francisco. ![]() I told him how much his books meant to me, especially Remembering the Good Times(now sadly out-of-print), which deals with the impact of a teen’s suicide on a trio of friends and which had a profound effect on me. Peck was one of the first authors I met when I started working at NYPL in 1998. ![]()
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