Across Five Aprils

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Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils (Paperback, 1986, Silver Burdett Press)

Paperback, 212 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 1986 by Silver Burdett Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8136-7202-1
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OCLC Number:
34174581

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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

  • Historical - United States - General
  • Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life
  • People & Places - United States
  • Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical
  • Fiction