Across Five Aprils
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780881030020
Subjects: Historical - United States - 19th Century; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Historical - United States - Civil War; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical
First sentence: Ellen Creighton and her nine-year-old son, Jethro, were planting potatoes in the half-acre just south of their cabin that morning in mid-April 1861; they were out in the field as soon as breakfast was over, and southern Illinois at that hour was pink with sunrise and swelling redbud and clusters of bloom over the apple orchard across the road.