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The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts / Richard Peck.
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."
Record details
- ISBN: 0803727364 (hc : acidfree paper)
- Physical Description: 190 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dial Books, 2004.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Kissing summer good-bye: August -- Best boys in the world -- Me and Lloyd and Charlie Parr -- Flowers for Miss Myrt -- Mess of bad puppies -- First such mishap of the twentieth century -- Droning of locusts, a mourning of doves -- Jailhouse of school: Called to the trough of knowledge -- One lucky boy -- Stony Lonesome -- Trouble on the way -- Another old gal in the ditch -- Only really perfect thing in the world -- Fall of the year: One serious suitor -- Fatal Friday -- Two miracles and a mercy -- Grown and flown. |
| Target Audience Note: | 750L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 6 6 83176 |
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| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meyersdale Public Library | J FIC PECK (Text) | 30512000388684 | MEYM Juvenile | Available | - |
