Item Record

Author	Peck, Richard, 1934-
Publication Info	New York : Dial Books, c2004
Year Published	2004
Description	190 p. ; 22 cm
Call #	Kids Fic PECK
ISBN/Standard #	0803727364 (hc.)
LC #	2004004361
Language	eng
Material Format	Book
Notes	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."
Subject Headings	Education -- Juvenile fiction \| Teachers -- Juvenile fiction \| Country life -- Juvenile fiction -- Indiana \| Education -- Fiction \| Teachers -- Fiction \| Country life -- Fiction -- Indiana \| Historical fiction \| Humorous stories \| Indiana -- Juvenile fiction -- History -- 20th century \| Indiana -- Fiction -- History -- 20th century \| Historical fiction. \| Humorous fiction.
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