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Author:

Peck, Richard, 1934-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Scholastic,

Copyright Date:

2006, c2004

Description:

190 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Teenage boys.--Juvenile fiction.
Rural schools.--Juvenile fiction.
Teachers--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters.--Juvenile fiction.
Country life--Indiana--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys.--Fiction.
Schools.--Fiction.
Teachers--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters.
Country life.--Fiction.
Indiana.--Fiction.
Humorous stories.

Notes:

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."

ISBN:

9780439900355 (pbk.)
0439900352 (pbk.)
9780439865173 (pbk.)
0439865174 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76894683

Locations:

APPC546 -- Wilson Memorial Library (Keota)

HQPD845 -- Rock Valley Public Library (Rock Valley)

FRPA224 -- Volga Public Library (Volga)

S4PA034 -- Waterville Public Library (Waterville)