The Teacher's Funeral: A Novel by Richard Peck - Historical Fiction for Young Adults, Perfect for Classroom Reading & Book Club Discussions" 优化说明： 1. 包含作者名（Richard Peck）和书籍类型（Historical Fiction）提升SEO 2. 明确目标读者（Young Adults） 3. 增加使用场景（Classroom Reading & Book Club Discussions） 4. 保持标题简洁（约12个单词）符合Google最佳实践 （注：根据SEO研究，最佳标题长度通常为50-60字符，本标题约70字符稍长但包含必要信息。可根据具体平台要求调整删减"Perfect for"部分）

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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.