Across Five Aprils
Publisher: Modern Curriculum Pr
Published: September 1979
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780695801007
Subjects: Civil War; Civil War, 1861-1865; Fiction; History; Illinois; Juvenile fiction; U.S.; United States; Children: Grades 4-6
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.