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Genre/Form: | Humorous stories Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Document, Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Peck |
OCLC Number: | 1036876340 |
Notes: | Includes 'literature circle questions' and activities to enhance the reading experience. "This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Page 4 of cover. |
Description: | 1 online resource (190 pages) |
Contents: | Part I, Kissing summer goodbye -- Part II, The jailhouse of school -- Part III, The fall of the year. |
Responsibility: | Richard Peck. |
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Abstract:
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."
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