Illinois

Dandelion Wine

Unknown, supernatural events transformed into everyday occurrences.

A Long Way From Chicago

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Country life, fiction, Grandmothers, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Illinois

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

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.

Country life, fiction, Grandmothers, Illinois

Heartland

Robert McLaughlin

History and information about the states of the Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin.

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin

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McL

Allan Carpenter

Illinois

917.73
CAR

So Big

Edna Ferber

Life story of Selina De Jong, the wife of a Dutch farmer, whose indomitable spirit rises above her many years of hardship.

Character and characterization, Farmers and farm life, fiction, Illinois, Pulitzer Prizes

FIC
FER

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

Unknown, supernatural events transformed into everyday occurrences.

City and town life, fiction, Illinois

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Bradbury

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

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.

Country life, fiction, Grandmothers, Illinois

FIC
Peck