Peck, Richard

The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts / Richard Peck. - New York : Scholastic, c2004. - 190 p.

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."

ISBN: 0439802660 (hc) ;

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education--Fiction
Teachers--Fiction
Country life--Fiction--Indiana
Humourous stories