Title The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts / Richard Peck.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Junior High Department	YA PECK	Check Shelf

Description	190 pages, 15 ; 22 cm
Note	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.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 6.0 83176.
Subject	Rural schools -- Juvenile fiction.
	Education -- Juvenile fiction.
	Teachers -- Juvenile fiction.
	Country life -- Indiana -- Juvenile fiction.
	Rural schools -- Fiction.
	Education -- Fiction.
	Teachers -- Fiction.
	Country life -- Indiana -- Fiction.
	Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Humorous stories.
ISBN	0142405078 paperback
	9780142405079 paperback

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