false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174747288m/434420.jpg 434420 12 "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.<br> 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.<br> As he did in A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters here--the enviable and the laughable, the adorably meek and the deliciously terrifying. There will be no forgetting Russell, Tansy, and all the rest who populate this hilarious, shrewd, and thoroughly enchanting novel. 423356 7 10 2004 The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts total:805|5:212|4:327|3:205|2:46|1:15| 805 3090 1066 183 4 3 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 16:30:04 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 16:34:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 10:14:09 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 10:32:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 17:35:09 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 18:00:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:46:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:23:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 24 11:58:13 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 11:58:40 -0800 2009 Read it in 5th grade]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:22:51 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:34:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 21:29:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 21:37:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 24 14:01:39 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 14:07:34 -0700 2009
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I'll admit, that as a BIG education proponent, I loved the book. However, for me, what really raised it to 5 stars was the the incredible wit of Richard P...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:53:08 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:59:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 14:20:03 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 14:20:15 -0700 2009 Chicago series, this sweet family novel is set in turn of the century (1904) Indiana farm country. The folksy, eccentric characters, the Tom Sawyeresque antics of the narrator and his friends, and the sweet romance of a young girl struggling to find he...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=434420