The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts A Comedy in Three Parts

by Peck, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780803727366
• ISBN10: 0803727364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Dial

Summary

"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," says Russell Culver, fifteen, who's raring to light out for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. School's only standing in the way of his Dakota dreams. Maybe now with his teacher in the ground, Hominy Ridge School will shut down for good.

Author Biography

Richard Peck was described by The Washington Post as "America's best living author for young adults." He is the first children's writer ever to have been awarded a National Humanities Medal. The author of more than thirty books, he has also won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young-adult literature, the Newbery Medal (for A Year Down Yonder), a Newbery Honor (for A Long Way from Chicago), and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among countless other honors. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Kissing Summer Good-Bye	p. 1
August	p. 3
The Best Boys in the World	p. 6
Me and Lloyd and Charlie Parr	p. 13
Flowers for Miss Myrt	p. 29
A Mess of Bad Puppies	p. 34
The First Such Mishap of the Twentieth Century	p. 46
A Droning of Locusts, a Mourning of Doves	p. 58
The Jailhouse of School	p. 71
Called to the Trough of Knowledge	p. 73
One Lucky Boy	p. 87
Stony Lonesome	p. 99
Trouble on the Way	p. 112
Another Old Gal in the Ditch	p. 125
The Only Really Perfect Thing in the World	p. 136
The Fall of the Year	p. 147
One Serious Suitor	p. 149
Fatal Friday	p. 161
Two Miracles and a Mercy	p. 171
Grown and Flown	p. 185
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