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The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts
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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 or the time frame of the book: the early 1900's. If you are a funeral professional the book can help your young ones accept what you do and the changes you help others with. All this said the book brings forth much laughter,the poem on page 43 is a real yuk.
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 way, Richard Peck paints a rich landscape of characters that seem to fit naturally into the early 20th century plot with an understanding of the pitfalls of teaching. Particularly the Tarbox family and the salesman Eugene Hammond stand out as vivid images of a by-gone era. Hammond is quite taken by Tansy after their initial meeting which creates some humorous conflicts.
While some reviews suggest that this is not Peck's best work, I would be interested in reading his other works based on the cast of characters in this book. Peck is a gifted writer with a keen eye on the Indiana landscape. While this is a children's book, there is no reason an adult can not appreciate it.
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 other books by Richard Peck
because he writes good stories. I learned a lot of new words,
old-fashioned talk and bad grammar. I think The Teacher's Funeral is
interesting and most people should read it. (Actual overall rating: 4.2 stars from 7 students).
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