The teacher's funeral
Subtitle: a comedy in three parts
By: Richard Peck.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Large type books; Education -- Fiction; Teachers -- Fiction; Country life -- Indiana -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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."