num_pages: 224
description: If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.
language: English
title: The Teacher's Funeral
titlecomplete: The Teacher's Funeral
characters: Charlie Harris, Tansy Culver, Russell Culver
genres: Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Comedy, Teen, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 5071
places: Indiana
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Puffin Books