The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
by Peck, Richard
ALA Notable/Best BooksALA Best Book for Young AdultsSchoolHistorical FictionFunnyTeachersCountryside/RuralCoop. Children's Book Center
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AR Book Level
4.7
AR Points
6
Word Count
38,642
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
83176 EN
About this book
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 of his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."