Book
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
by Richard Peck
- Published
- 2004
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 190
- Words
- 38642
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.7
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 750L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780803727366
- ISBN-10
- 0803727364
Tags
ALSC NotablesCommunity Life-SchoolFamily Life-SistersHistorical FictionHistory-American/U.S. HistoryHumorHumor/Funny-FunnyPeople-TeenagersUnited States-Indiana