The Teacher's Funeral

Richard Peck

Format

Hardcover

Published

2004

Category

9-12 year olds, Longer Novels, Sizzlin' Series

Publisher

Dial

ISBN

9780803727366

Pages

208

Description: Russell Culver, son of a harvester in the 1940’s hears that his teacher dies in August, right before the beginning of school. He thinks this is his big break to be free of school once and for all. However, this is not the case, as the new teacher, no matter how tormented or ill treated, has a different plan for all the students of this one room school in the Dakotas. Just a Heads Up: Mature Content