The Teacher's Funeral

If your teacher has to die, August isnt a bad time of year for it, says Russell Culver, fifteen, whos raring to light out for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. Schools only standing in the way of his Dakota dreams. Maybe now with his teacher in the ground, Hominy Ridge School will shut down for good.No such luck. Russell and his schoolmatesPearl, Flopears, Little Britches; the whole bunchare about to be ruled by a new teacher whos Russells worst nightmare.Despite stolen supplies, rustic vandalism, a blazing boys privy, and more snakes than you can shake a stick at, the new teacher will keep the school afloat and set Russell on a new course entirely.

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