The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts /
Richard Peck.
- New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2004.
- 190 p ; 20 cm.
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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 dies.