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The Teacher's Funeral

By Richard Peck

By Richard Peck

By Richard Peck

By Richard Peck

By Richard Peck
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By Richard Peck
Read by Dylan Baker

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Nov 21, 2006 | ISBN 9780142405079 | Middle Grade (8-12)

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Apr 20, 2006 | ISBN 9781101200483 | Middle Grade (8-12)

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Nov 23, 2004 | 282 Minutes | Young Adult

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    About The Teacher’s Funeral

    If your teacher has to die, August isn’t a bad time of year for it,” begins Richard Peck’s latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he’s raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they’ll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam.

    No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom’s share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.

    About The Teacher’s Funeral

    If your teacher has to die, August isn’t a bad time of year for it,” begins Richard Peck’s latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he’s raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they’ll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam.

    No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom’s share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.

    About The Teacher’s Funeral

    The year is 1904, and Russell is 15. Though he dreams of leaving small-town Indiana to become part of a large farm crew in the Dakotas, he’s forced to stay in school, where his sister Tansy has just become the new teacher. Through the autumn, Russell observes the strange goings-on in the classroom, including a fight for Tansy’s affection between a rough-and-tumble guy named Glenn and Russell’s own best friend, Charlie. (Both will need to compete with a city slicker named Eugene who’s in the area trying to sell an amazing new invention called the automobile.) By Thanksgiving, Tansy has become a full-fledged teacher and Russell has resigned himself to the student life. In the last chapter, we learn which man ultimately won Tansy’s heart, and also who Russell ended up marrying.

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    About Richard Peck

    RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a… More about Richard Peck

    About Richard Peck

    RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a… More about Richard Peck

    About Richard Peck

    RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a… More about Richard Peck

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Puffin Books
    Nov 21, 2006 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780142405079

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Puffin Books
    Apr 20, 2006 | 224 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9781101200483

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.50
    Published by Listening Library
    Nov 23, 2004 | 282 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9781400091041

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    Praise

    “Peck is in his element here. [S]o vivid is the telling of every event, conversation, and emotion. Best of all, the dry wit and unpretentious tone make the story’s events comical, its characters memorable, and its conclusion unexpectedly moving.”—Booklist, starred review

    Awards

    ALA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER

    ALA Notable Book WINNER

    New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing WINNER

    ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings SELECTION 2005

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