Status
Available
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Description
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 schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
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Publication
Scholastic (2006), 190 pages
Subjects
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2007)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2006)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2006)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2007)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2006-2007)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Christopher Award (2005)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Middle School — 2007)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — 2007)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2005)
CCBC Choices (2005)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Young Adult — 2005)
Notable Children's Book (2005)
Language
Original publication date
2004
Physical description
190 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
0439865174 / 9780439865173