Includes 'literature circle questions' and activities to enhance the reading experience. "This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.
Contents:
Part I, Kissing summer goodbye -- Part II, The jailhouse of school -- Part III, The fall of the year.
Summary:
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
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