The teacher's funeral
Subtitle: a comedy in three parts
By: Richard Peck
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780439865173; 9780439900355
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Teenage boys; Brothers and sisters; Juvenile fiction; Rural schools; Fiction; Country life; Teachers; Schools
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."
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.
Table of contents: title: Part I, Kissing summer goodbye; title: Part II, The jailhouse of school; title: Part III, The fall of the year.