The Teacher's Funeral - Richard Peck

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Title: The Teacher's Funeral
Author: Richard Peck
Genre: Childrens
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 224 pages
Date read: February, 2022

"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it." Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam.

No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.


A charming book with definite shades of "Farmer Boy" - if Almanzo Wilder had been slightly more prone to pranks ;-) I would probably have enjoyed it a lot more if I'd been younger when I first read it, as I cannot pinpoint anything 'wrong' with it - it just didn't blow me away.

It did make me want to reread the Little House series though :-D