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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Peck, Richard, 1934-2018. Teacher's funeral. New York : Puffin Books, ©2006 (OCoLC)65399784 |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Peck |
ISBN: | 9781429536462 1429536462 9781429536493 1429536497 |
OCLC Number: | 457604998 |
Awards: | Winner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Winner of ALA Notable Book. Winner of New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. |
Description: | 1 online resource (190 pages) |
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. |
Responsibility: | Richard Peck. |
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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