Using the famous Chicago World's Fair with legends like Buffalo Bill and the beautiful Lillian Russell and a mix of a fictional family, Richard Peck made an exciting historical fiction novel. From Richard Peck, the creator of the New berry Medal-winning novel, A Year Down Yonder, comes the just as popular, Fair Weather. Open this book and you' ll read a story of a young girl with her family, going to new places, and changing her widow aunt's life forever. This wonderful, witty glimpse into 19th-century America-sprinkled with historical photographs-concludes with an insightful essay on the Exposition.
Narrator Rosie is friendly and funny as she describes the instant (if not entirely successful) citification of her family, encounters with Buffalo Bill himself, and her own delightfully eccentric Granddad who named his horse after Lillian Russell (which is just fine until they meet her at the fair). She decides that it's high time for the children to see the world beyond "the four walls of a one-room country schoolhouse." And what better opportunity than the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, to honor the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America? Spanish nobility, President Cleveland, and Ferris wheels, oh my! Richard Peck, Newbery Medal-winning author of A Year Down Yonder, paints a charming portrait of a 19th-century farming family turned upside down by a visit to the big city. What event catapults the Beckett family into such a state? The arrival of a letter from distant Chicago-and not just a letter, an invitation from Mama's elusive, wealthy sister Aunt Euterpe. Granddad emits a strangled sound, 13-year-old Rosie pitches right off her chair, and young Buster just vibrates.
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