Peck, Richard

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The teacher's funeral

a comedy in three parts
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 dies.
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A Year Down Yonder

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Sounds and silences

A collection of American and English poetry about such facets of modern life as sonic booms, conscientious objectors, psychedelic images, and loneliness.

A long way from Chicago

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

A long way from Chicago

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

Sounds and silences

Ghosts I have been

Are you in the house alone?

As the recipient of threatening, obscene notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes terrifyingly aware that she is under constant observation by a psychotic.

Are you in the house alone?

Sounds and silences

A collection of American and English poetry about such facets of modern life as sonic booms, conscientious objectors, psychedelic images, and loneliness.

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