{"product_id":"theteachers-funeral-a-comedy-in-three-parts","title":"TheTeacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If your teacher has to die  August isnt a bad time of year for it \" begins Richard Pecks latest novel  a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904  and hes 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  theyll 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 classrooms 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974291910709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0439865174","price":26.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780439865173.jpg?v=1770652468","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/theteachers-funeral-a-comedy-in-three-parts","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}