Includes an excerpt from: Here lies the librarian.
Summary
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."
Contents
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.