The Teacher's Funeral
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 74
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: education, teachers, country life, humorous stories [X], historical fiction, indiana, rural schools, large type books [X], humorous fiction, reading counts! [X]