Showing The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck

HardCover. Pub Date :2004-10-1 Pages: 190 Publisher:. Oversea Publishing House Starred Review Grade 6 Up-Cmon back to rural Indiana in 1904 and join 15-year-old Russell. whose summer ends with the unexpected death of old Miss Myrt Arbuckle. Russell and his younger brother are thrilled because just maybe the school board will decide to stop its foolishness and tear down the one-room schoolhouse. Surely it doesnt pay to hire a new teacher for the six students who attend. But to his utter horror. one is hired and its none other than his extremely bossy older sister. even though she still has a year left of high school herself. Tansy takes to teaching with vigor and manages to circumvent all of the high jinx and calamities that threaten to undermine her authority. such as an accidental fire in the privy and a puff adder in her desk drawer. Peck expertly evokes humor and colloqui...