The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of the year for it," says Russell Culver, fifteen, who's raring to light our for the endless skies of the Dakotas to join a team of harvesters working the new 1904 all-steel threshing machines. School's only standing in the way of his Dakota dreams. Maybe now with his teacher in the ground, Hominy Ridge School with shut down for good. No such luck. Russell and his schoolmates - Pearl, Flopears, Little Britches; the whole bunch - are about t...