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Rent The Teacher's Funeral
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: May 2006
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Humorous Stories
Retail Price: $8.99
Ages: 09 - 12 Pages: 190
Synopsis
Now that Russell's teacher's done passed away, maybe Hominy Ridge School will be shut down for good and he can light out for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. No such luck. Russell and his schoolmates are about to be ruled by a new teacher who is Russell's worst nightmare—his sister. Russell's going to do whatever it takes to sink the school, even if it means resorting to stealing supplies, rustic vandalism, torching a boy's privy, and rustling up more snakes than you can shake a stick at.
Reviews
In 1904 small town Indiana, fifteen-year-old Russell relates the adventures after his teacher’s death, from her funeral, to his sister becoming the local teacher, beaus who try to romance her, and his fight with obtaining an 8th-grade education. Humorous and enjoyable. Peck never lets a person down with humorous incidents, family relations, neighbors, and the lurking future.