To Peck's (The Last Safe Place on Earth) credit, the time travel mechanisms seem almost plausible even better, they don't overpower the story. Before long Aaron has imported a few characters from 1923 into the present, where Josh must cope with them. Sixth-grader Josh, from an upscale Manhattan home, gets mixed up in his best friend Aaron's experiments with ``cellular reorganization'' (Aaron compares the process to faxing himself through cyberspace Josh calls it time-travel).
(Oct.Amiable characters, fleet pacing and witty, in-the-know narration will keep even the non-bookish interested in this semi-fantastic adventure.
Following the tradition of Mark Twain, Peck gently pokes fun at social manners and captures local color while providing first-rate entertainment. Tansy and her students survive a privy fire, an explosion inside the school, a run-in with a snake and threats from neighboring "Aunt" Fannie Hamline, who accuses the students of "trespassin' and stealin'." Events on their own are enough to keep readers in stitches, but Russell's pithy descriptions of characters (" had a snout on her long enough to drink water down a crawdad hole") add another dimension of humor. What follows is a series of hilarious episodes, colorfully narrated by Russell, which recount Tansy's trials and tribulations attempting to educate a motley crew of pupils and maintain some order. But as luck would have it, his high-school–age sister, Tansy, is hired to take Miss Myrt's place. Russell has high hopes that the school board will close the one-room schoolhouse. ) latest rural comedy, set in the "backwoodsiest corner of Indiana." Just before school starts in 1904, a "miracle" occurs for 15-year-old Russell Culver and his classmates at Hominy Ridge School: Miss Myrt Arbuckle, the schoolmarm ("she must have been forty.
"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Peck's ( A Year Down Under
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