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Author:

Peck, Richard, 1934-

Title:

The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts / Richard Peck.

Publisher:

Puffin Books,

Copyright Date:

c2006, c2004

Description:

190 p., 15 ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Rural schools.--Juvenile fiction.
Education--Juvenile fiction.
Teachers--Juvenile fiction.
Country life--Indiana--Juvenile fiction.
Rural schools.--Fiction.
Education--Fiction.
Teachers--Fiction.
Country life--Indiana--Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Indiana--History--20th century.--Fiction.

Notes:

Includes an excerpt from: Here lies the librarian.

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."

ISBN:

9780142405079
9780142405079 (pbk.)
0142405078 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65399784

Locations:

NPSX771 -- North Polk High School (Alleman)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

MCPB423 -- Radcliffe Public Library (Radcliffe)

MLPA343 -- Rudd Public Library (Rudd)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

ENPC715 -- Sanborn Public Library (Sanborn)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

SWPB522 -- Swisher Public Library (Swisher)