Peck, Richard. (2006). The teacher's funeral. New York: Penguin.
The story takes place in 1904. Russell Culver is fifteen and wants to leave his bitty farm in Indiana to venture off to the Dakotas. School is not for him. There is so much more in life than the classroom has to offer. All Russell can hope for is they will shut the school down since his teacher has moved on to the big classroom in the sky.
I liked this book. When I first began teaching, I worked in a three room school house. Everyone does help out and do what they can so when Russell's sister turned out to be the new teacher, I had to laugh. That is really what happens.
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