| Description |
190 pages, 15 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes an excerpt from: Here lies the librarian. |
| Summary |
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 at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." |
| Contents |
Kissing summer good-bye: August -- Best boys in the world -- Me and Lloyd and Charlie Parr -- Flowers for Miss Myrt -- Mess of bad puppies -- First such mishap of the twentieth century -- Droning of locusts, a mourning of doves -- Jailhouse of school: Called to the trough of knowledge -- One lucky boy -- Stony Lonesome -- Trouble on the way -- Another old gal in the ditch -- Only really perfect thing in the world -- Fall of the year: One serious suitor -- Fatal Friday -- Two miracles and a mercy -- Grown and flown. |
| Audience |
750L Lexile |
| Note |
750L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 6 83176 |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 6 83176 |
| Subject |
Rural schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Education -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teachers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Country life -- Indiana -- Juvenile fiction.
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Humorous stories.
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| Genre |
Humorous fiction Juvenile fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780142405079 (pbk.) |
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0142405078 (pbk.) |
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