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| Genre/Form: | Humorous fiction Historical fiction Humorous stories Fiction History Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Peck, Richard, 1934- Teacher's funeral. New York : Dial Books, ©2004 (OCoLC)606366855 Online version: Peck, Richard, 1934- Teacher's funeral. New York : Dial Books, ©2004 (OCoLC)607525395 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Peck |
| ISBN: | 0803727364 9780803727366 9781415669969 1415669961 |
| OCLC Number: | 54857970 |
| Awards: | Christopher Award, 2005 |
| Description: | 190 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Kissing summer good-bye: August -- Best boys in the world -- Me and Lloyd and Charlie Parr -- Flowers for Miss Myrt -- Mess of bad puppies -- First such mishap of the twentieth century -- Droning of locusts, a mourning of doves -- Jailhouse of school: Called to the trough of knowledge -- One lucky boy -- Stony Lonesome -- Trouble on the way -- Another old gal in the ditch -- Only really perfect thing in the world -- Fall of the year: One serious suitor -- Fatal Friday -- Two miracles and a mercy -- Grown and flown. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Peck. |
Abstract:
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is 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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An amusing story
When fifteen-year-old Russell Culver's teacher dies right before school is to start, Russell is thrilled. But his dream of an endless summer is not to be, as the school board finds a replacement right away--one who already knows all his tricks and excuses.
This was a fun read,...
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