Across Five Aprils
Publisher: Tandem Library; Turtleback Books
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780613953900
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.