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The teacher's funeralThe teacher's funeral

The teacher's funeral

Richard Peck

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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 "hauls off and dies."

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OL Work ID
OL16041707W

Subjects

Teenage boysBrothers and sistersJuvenile fictionRural schoolsFictionSchoolsTeachersCountry life

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