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The Teacher's Funeral

Richard Peck

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 schoolhous

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The Teacher's Funeral

Richard Peck

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 schoolhous

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Frontier Life

David Ritchie

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A Place On Earth

Wendell Berry

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A Place On Earth

Wendell Berry

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A Long Way From Chicago

Richard Peck

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

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A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually

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Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, be

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A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

Sequel to: A long way from Chicago.

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Them That Glitter and Them That Don't

Bette Greene

Though she has always been told the contrary, a young Gypsy girl living in the rural south is convinced that she can use her singing talent to become someone really special.

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