Richard Peck

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Born:
Sept. 26, 1934
Died:
May 24, 2018

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Richard Wayne Peck (April 10, 1934 – May 23, 2018) was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder (the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago). For his cumulative contribution to young-adult literature, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1990.

Books by Richard Peck

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Richard Peck: The best man (2016)

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The best man

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Richard Peck: Voices after midnight (1990, Dell) 4 stars

Voices after midnight

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Richard Peck: A Long Way From Chicago (2004, Puffin) 4 stars

A Long Way From Chicago

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Richard Peck: Here lies the librarian (2006, Dial Books) 5 stars

Here lies the librarian

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Richard Peck: A season of gifts (2009, Dial Books for Young Readers) 5 stars

A season of gifts

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Richard Peck: A year down yonder (2000, Dial Books for Young Readers) 4 stars

A year down yonder

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Richard Peck: Monster night at Grandma's house (1977, Viking Press) 4 stars

Monster night at Grandma's house

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Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged To Me (Hardcover, 1977, Collins) 5 stars

The Ghost Belonged To Me

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Richard Peck, R. Peck: A Long Way from Chicago (EBook, 2006, Listening Library) No rating

A Long Way from Chicago

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Robert D. Ballard, Virginia Hamilton, Kevin Feldman, Jack London, , Cynthia Rylant, James Berry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Prelutsky, Ray Bradbury, Paul Zindel, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, John Phillip Santos, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Julia Alvarez, Octavio Paz, Richard Peck, Lloyd Alexander, Laurence Yep, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Bailey White, George Eliot, Leslie Silko, Christopher Paul Curtis, Chinua Achebe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Helen Keller, Rachel Field, Olivia E. Coolidge, Eve Merriam, Julius Lester, Langston Hughes, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Walter Dean Myers, Edward E. Wilson, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Zebrowski, Geoffrey C. Ward, Arnold Adoff, Nikki Giovanni, Jerry Spinelli, Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Benét, John Gardner, Myron Levoy, Amanda Borden, William Harwood, Kerry Cochrane, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, l. G. Edmonds, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van., Sandra Cisneros, George Laycock, Martin Waddell, Arthur Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Susy Clemens, Isaac Asimov, Jean Craighead George, Joseph Bruchac, Diana Chang, Russell Baker, Robert Frost, Francisco Jiménez, Sara Teasdale, Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Soto, Ken Burns, Judith Viorst, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, Jesse Stuart, Pat McKissack, Jane Yolen, Joan Aiken, Garrison Keillor, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Susan Nanus, James Thurber, Kate Kinsella, Lensey Namioka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Russell Freedman: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall Literature

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Richard Peck: The mouse with the question mark tail (2013, Dial Books for Young Readers) No rating

The mouse with the question mark tail

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Richard Peck: Ghosts I Have Been (2001) 4 stars

Ghosts I Have Been

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Richard Peck: The dreadful future of Blossom Culp (1983, Delacorte Press) 3 stars

The dreadful future of Blossom Culp

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Richard Peck: Blossom Culp and the sleep of death (1986, Delacorte Press) No rating

Blossom Culp and the sleep of death

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