TY - MANSCPT AU - Peck,Richard TI - The Teacher's Funeral: A comedy in Three Parts SN - 0-8037-2736-4 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Dial Books KW - Education - Fiction KW - Teachers - Fiction KW - Humorous stories KW - Country life - Indiana - Fiction N1 - 5 - 9 N2 - 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 of his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." ER -