Richard Peck

Library author-member Richard Peck is the 2001 recipient of the John Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the most distinguished book for children or young adults. Peck's A Year Down Yonder tells the Depression-era story of 15-year-old Mary Alice, who is sent from Chicago to rural Illinois to spend a year with her feisty grandmother.

Reviewers have praised "these hilarious stories that rest solidly within the American literary tradition of Mark Twain. . . .Readers will gain historical perspective from this lively picture of the Depression years."

Mr. Peck has researched many of his more than thirty books in the Library. "The New York Society Library is a treasure to me," he says.

TITLE	CALL #	YEAR
Dreadful future of Blossom Culp	YA-F P	(1983)
Fair weather	Juv-F P	(2001)
Ghost belonged to me	Juv-F P	(1975)
Ghosts I have been	Juv-F P	(1977)
Great interactive dream machine	Juv-F P	(1996)
Here lies the librarian	YA-F P	(2006)
Long way from Chicago	Juv-F P	(1998)
Lost in cyberspace	Juv-F P	(1995)
On the wings of heroes	Juv-F P	(2007)
Past, perfect, present tense	YA-F P	(2004)
Representing Super Doll	Juv-F P Stack 8	(1974)
River between us	YA-F P	(2003)
Teacher's funeral	YA-F P	(2004)
Voices after midnight	Juv-F P	(1989)
Year down yonder	YA-F P	(2000)

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