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The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts

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- Storytelling at its best
Over the years Peck has demonstrated he is an extraordinary storyteller. His latest is no exception. The Culver family is one you wish you knew --- loving, wise, and irrepressible. Told by 15 year old, Russell, the story begins in August with the death of Myrt Arbuckle, the Hominy Ridge School teacher. When older sister Tansy gets the job, Russell knows that life will change. He plans to go to the Dakota Territory to find excitement. He finds it in Parke County, Indiana during 1904. You will laugh and cry at the stories and you will come to love the characters. This is a must for any teacher in Indiana to have on his/her classroom shelf. And if you can get that Central Indiana accent going, it will make a terrific read aloud.

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- Humorous book
This book written in a young man's voice is a hilarious story about a one room school house and the students that attend it. Although it is written for a juvinelle audience, my husband and I loved reading it because it reminds us of little boys who hate school and how they challenged teachers.

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- Entertaing little book.
I am a pretty big Richard Peck fan and this book did not disappoint me. It's not his very best -I think that would be A Long Way From Chicago- but Peck's humor and knack for charming a reader with small town flair is very present. This story is quite predictable but then again it is a simple tale. You won't find a mystery or intrigue, just a good yarn. Over all this is worth your time and money. As a teacher I'd recommend it for fifth or sixth graders who enjoy Americana themes.

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- The Teachers Death...mwahahahah
I read this novel for a book report. I definetly enjoyed this book! It is filled with humor to keep you laughing thoughout this book. I think that many kids can relate to this book, wherein they do not want to start school again, and don't intencionally want there teacher to become sick, but every kid has dreams. There is a twist...with one of the main characters! I think that this should be a book that you read in your literature circles.

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- Tom Sawyer redux
The title alone ("A Teacher's Funeral") may induce a number of school-weary kids to pick this book up, what with the demise of teachers being a subject of schoolyard songs even when I was a kid. The book is, however, the opposite of mean-spirited: it is a sympathetic, almost hymn-like story of rural Indiana at the turn of the 20th century. The plot is simple: after the switch-happy Miss Myrt shuffles off this mortal coil, Tansy (the narrator Russell's older sister) becomes teacher to a rag-tag bunch of kids. Oh the horror! My own 11-year-old's eyes grew wide at the idea of being under the thumb of a sibling all day long. To buoy up the narrative there are a lot of what you might call "hijinks" - setting the school privy on fire, a buggy accident in which an old maid aunt ends up with her skirts around her head, that sort of thing.

I thought at first this might all be too mild for my adventure and action-seeking son. But we read it out loud to each other, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Richard Peck goes for a kind of Mark Twain vibe - folksy, humorous, and above all affectionate. He really likes his characters, even when he is making light of them. Peck's genius as a writer comes not from a screenplay-like imagination (he's not all plot twists and peril) but from his ability to convey strong and interesting characters. Everyone - even old Aunt Maud - turns out to have hidden depths, even though the book is really very very funny (!).

Sorta makes me wish Peck would try his hand at something for the over-30 crowd. He's a wonderful writer and the book is a great addition to the recent literature for older kids.

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