Across five Aprils

190 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 1986 by Berkley Books.

ISBN:
978-0-425-10241-1
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Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

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Literally the worst book I have ever sat through.

20 years later, I still have a visceral response to this book from a class. You will be more entertained watching paint dry. The story is about a boy on a farm during the Civil War. Nothing happens, because it's far away from the war. Agonising.

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Subjects

  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction