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The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780803727366
ISBN: 0803727364
Label: Dial
Manufacturer: Dial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 07, 2004
Publisher: Dial
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Dial
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Editorial Review:
"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.
As he did in A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters here--the enviable and the laughable, the adorably meek and the deliciously terrifying. There will be no forgetting Russell, Tansy, and all the rest who populate this hilarious, shrewd, and thoroughly enchanting novel.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - If someone 10-15yrs old confronts death give this book.
Please if you are a funeral professional and have a young person at home purchase this book. If someone has to go to a funeral and is young this book will help.
Please do not blindly give this book away or force it on others. Young Folks can have a hard time processing a funeral and a death. This should not be put into schools for reading by all. It is an effective book for the appropiate moment: a funeral or a death. The book is quite humorous but few young folks appreciate the humor ... Read More
Rating: - Vary Good Read
This book has a great story and it is awesome the way your find out what happens to them all in the end. The language was alittle difficult for my 12 year old son to get used to, but he thought it was worth it and so did I.
Rating:  - The Teacher's Funeral
I loved this book! It was halarious and was a fast read- I couldn't put it down!
Rating: - Life in the Hoosier State
In the mold of Tom Sawyer, Russell Culver is the type of character with who a young reader can identify. He hates school and enjoys mischief. His goal of quitting school seems within grasp when the school's teacher dies. But when his sister Tansy takes the teaching position, Russell's plans are altered.
While stills dreaming of leaving for the Dakotas, Russell's father pressures him to do well in school. Yet even Russell is aware of his improved education as the days pass. Along the ... Read More
Rating: - 3rd Grade Reading Group, Newport Oregon Elementary School
If you like action and funny jokes this the book for you.. It tells me
what it would be like to live in 1904....the activities and the games they
played way back then. It's about a boy named Russell Culver who wants
to go to the Dakotas use the new threshing machine but the teacher is
stopping him from going. It's funny and it gets better and better.
It's long and hard but its worth it...it was kind of hard to understand
the words they used in it. I would read ... Read More
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