Hunt, Irene           frey50        <br/><br/>
Across five Aprils /  Print 
Irene Hunt 
 - New York  Grosset & Dunlap  1964 
 - 189 p.  Hardback 
<br/><br/> Newberry Award Winner, runner-up 1965 
<br/><br/> In April 1861 young Jethro Creighton heard the talk of war, but didn't understand what war meant.  By the second April he had seen his brothers go off to fight - two for the North, one for the South. Still but a boy, he had to take on a man's job on the Illinois farm, where the work in the fields was made heavier by the hard news of battles lost and men slain.  By the fifth April, 1865, Jethro had experienced all the heartaches of a family, a state, a nation, in the agony of a war pitting brother against brother, friend against friend.  He saw peace come, it's joy marred by Lincoln's tragic death.  And he left his boyhood behind. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Growing up - Time of war--Family life - Time of war--Illinois--Civil War 1861 - 1865
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