num_pages: 190
description: "If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of the year for it," says Russell Culver, fifteen, who's raring to light our for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. School's only standing in the way of his Dakota dreams. Maybe now with his teacher in the ground, Hominy Ridge School with shut down for good.No such luck. Russell and his schoolmates - Pearl, Flopears, Little Britches; the whole bunch - are about to be ruled by a new teacher who's Russell's worst nightmare.Despite stolen supplies, rustic vandalism, a blazing boys' privy, and more snakes than you can shake a stick at, the new teacher will keep the school afloat and set Russell on a new course entirely.
language: English
title: The Teacher's Funeral
titlecomplete: The Teacher's Funeral
characters: Russell Culver, Tansy Culver, Charlie Harris
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, Teen, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile
ratings_count: 5071
places: Indiana
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Scholastic, Inc.