The Teacher's Funeral (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142405079)

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.

Author: Richard Peck
ISBN-10: 0142405078
ISBN-13: 9780142405079
Publisher: Puffin Books
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.58h x 5.66w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 83176 / Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/27/2006 pg. 81