Title: The teacher's funeral
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."
Subjects: Teenage boys, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Rural schools, Fiction, Schools, Teachers, Country life
Places: Indiana