The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts
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New York : Dial Books, c2004.
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190 pages ; 22 cm.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Tween Fiction / HUMORJ FIC / PECK, R / teachersChecked OutApril 6, 2024

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Published
New York : Dial Books, c2004.
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Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 4.7, 6 Points

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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." "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 him: 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. As he did in A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder , Richard Peck creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters here--the enviable and the laughable, the adorably meek and the deliciously terrifying. There will be no forgetting Russell, Tansy, and all the rest who populate this hilarious, shrewd, and thoroughly enchanting novel.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Peck, R. (2004). The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts . Dial Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Peck, Richard, 1934-. 2004. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts. Dial Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Peck, Richard, 1934-. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts Dial Books, 2004.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Peck, Richard. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts Dial Books, 2004.

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