01418cam a2200301 4500 299574732 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 040225s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004004361 9780803727366 0803727364 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Peck, Richard, 1934- The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts / Richard Peck. New York : Dial Books, 2004. 190 p. ; 22 cm. In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies.". 20170101. Education Fiction. Teachers Fiction. Country life Indiana Fiction. Indiana History 20th century Fiction. Humorous stories. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0720/2004004361-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2004004361-s.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1315/2004004361-b.html Contributor biographical information