Richard Peck
Richard Peck

RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O’Dell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacher’s Funeral. He was the first children’s author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.

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The Best Man
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Michael Crouch
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Newbery Medalist Richard Peck tells a story of small-town life, gay marriage, and everyday heroes in this novel for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jack Gantos.Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-u...
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The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Russ Bain
Release Date: July 02, 2013
Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is at his very best in this fast-paced mystery adventure. Fans of The Tale of Desperaux, A Little Princess, and Stuart Little will all be captivated by this memorable story of a lovable orphan mouse on an ama...
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Secrets at Sea
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Jayne Entwistle
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Helena is big-sister mouse to three younger siblings, living a snug and well-fed life within the ancient walls of the Cranston family home. When the Cranston humans decide to sail away to England to find a husband for one of their daughters, the Cran...
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Three Quarters Dead
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Ariadne Meyers
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Kerry is chosen by the coolest clique in school and so she thinks life has finally begun. But then it seems all over when her three friends are killed in a shocking car accident. Or are they? Only weeks after the accident, Kerry receives a text from ...
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A Season of Gifts
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Ron McLarty
Release Date: September 22, 2009
One of the most adored children’s book characters of all time is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Medal—winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor—winning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turn...
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Fair Weather
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Estelle Parsons
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of...
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Past Perfect, Present Tense
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Richard Peck, Lara Schwartzberg and Paul Boehmer
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read childre...
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Here Lies the Librarian
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Lara Everly
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Peewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dream of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young librarian with plans ...
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On the Wings of Heroes
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Davy Bowman’s dad and brother hung the moon. Dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davy’s brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has inv...
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A Year Down Yonder
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Lois Smith
Release Date: October 17, 2006
A Newbery Medal WinnerRichard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from ChicagoMary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now sh...
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A Long Way from Chicago
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Ron McLarty
Release Date: October 17, 2006
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.August 1930: The...
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The River Between Us
Author: Richard Peck | Narrator: Lina Patel
Release Date: June 27, 2006
The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt famil...
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