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The Teacher's Funeral

The Teacher's Funeral - Paperback

by Richard Peck
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard PeckAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2006-11-21Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780142405079ISBN-10:142405078UPC:9780142405079Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous Stories, Lifestyles, School & EducationBook Topic:Country LifeAward:Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee - Children's AwardSize:7.58 x 5.66 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCMTPQFB1C
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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780142405079ISBN-10:142405078UPC:9780142405079Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous Stories, Lifestyles, School & EducationBook Topic:Country LifeAward:Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee - Children's AwardSize:7.58 x 5.66 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCMTPQFB1C

RICHARD PECK (1934-2018) was born in Decatur, Illinois and lived in New York City for nearly 50 years. The acclaimed author of 35 novels for children and young adults, he won the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago, the Scott O'Dell Award for The River Between Us, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Are You in the House Alone?, a Boston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor for The Best Man, and the Christopher Medal for The Teacher's Funeral. He was the first children's author ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal, and was twice a National Book Award Finalist.


Publisher: Puffin Books

Awards

🏆 Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee - Children's Award

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Richard Peck

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