Across five Aprils /
by Irene Hunt ; jacket and endsheets by Albert John Pucci.
- Chicago : Follett Pub. Co., [1964]
- 223 p. : col. map ; 23 cm.
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.
Newbery Honor Book, 1965
64017209
Farm life--Illinois--Juvenile fiction. Coming of age--Fiction. Farm life--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction. Illinois--Juvenile fiction. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction. Illinois--Fiction.