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020			_a9780439865173
040			_cEscola Canadense de Niteroi
090			_aPEC
100			_aPeck, Richard
245	1	0	_aThe Teacher's Funeral: a comedy in three parts
300			_c5 x 0.75 x 8.5
362	0		_a2006
520			_a"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. 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. 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.
650		4	_aFamily Life
650		4	_aTeachers
650		4	_aSchool
650		4	_aYoung Adult Literature
650		4	_aHistorical Fiction
650		4	_aHumorous stories
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999			_c125296 _d125296