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"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. 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.
As he did in A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters here--the enviable and the laughable, the adorably meek and the deliciously terrifying. There will be no forgetting Russell, Tansy, and all the rest who populate this hilarious, shrewd, and thoroughly enchanting novel.
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3 stars 2 stars 1 star - Hardcover 208 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0803727364
- ISBN-13: 9780803727366
- Publisher: Dial
- Pub date: Oct 07, 2004
- Dimensions: 22 cm x 15 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Audio CD and Audio Cassette
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This novel reminded me of Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen. Its humor kept me reading and enjoying the novel. There wasn't alot of action, but it was always fun and I think it would appeal to a younger audience. I also think it would be an easy one to do an impromptu book talk or even a planned one.I w ... Continue
This novel reminded me of Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen. Its humor kept me reading and enjoying the novel. There wasn't alot of action, but it was always fun and I think it would appeal to a younger audience. I also think it would be an easy one to do an impromptu book talk or even a planned one.I would definately recommend it to others, but it was not my favorite book of the summer.