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Title: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt ISBN: 0-425-10241-6 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (157 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Civil War Story
Comment: A civil war is going on around the country, in the book Across Five Aprils, by Irene hunt. A young boy , named Jethro, is changed by it. Jethro is left by all of his brothers, during the Civil War, in a farm house, in southern Illinois. He has a very big family, of which he only knows half of, being the youngest of twelve children. Jethro is left for five years to put up with the bitterness of people who despise one of his brothers for being a Confederate. He is not alone. His mother, sister, Jenny, Father, and sister-in-law all deal with the same problems he is going through. During this time of war, Jethro matures and realizes the results of war, and learns to deal with the harshness of it all. A neighborhood of old enemies is brought together again by a war that has torn neighborhoods apart. This is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone that likes Civil War stories. Though it is not a real story, it is based on the authors memories of her grandfather's stories, which are just as great as this story itself.
Rating: 4
Summary: Across Five Aprils
Comment: I recently read a book titled Across Five Aprils; it's about a young boy named Jethro from Illinois. He is a farm boy who was of age when the Civil War broke out. He and his family worry about the war and if he would be able to dodge having to go. Young Jethro has to grow up faster than most adolescents and he learns to take on huge responsibilities. He gets up early in the mornings to help his mother in the field's he helps with the dishes. The community does not back up the Creighton family because Jethro's brothers join the Confederacy. The Confederacy is against having slaves. This causes problems for the whole family. To get through it the Creighton family sticks together and finds a way through this miserable Hardship.
I started reading this book because my English Teacher, Mrs. Shea, recommended it to me. When I saw the cover of the book I didn't want to have anything to do with the book. It looked boring; it looked like something someone old would read. It seemed like a waste of time, but I had to read it. So I read on. At the begging of the book it didn't seem worthwhile to read, but then it got interesting.
My favorite part of the book was the opening of every event that happened. Every time he mentioned the fields you could feel the heat of the fields. When he mentioned the murder of someone you could hear the gunshots and the horses gallop. At the dinner table when they all gathered and someone said something that they shouldn't have, you could feel the awkwardness. Irene Hunt did a great job with the descriptions and with the feeling within the whole entire book. This was an extravagant heart-pounding book and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys books about Hardships wars, or excitement.
Rating: 1
Summary: this book TOOK five aprils to read!
Comment: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt was so boring! We read it in our 7th grade English class, and it took us so long because it was not exciting at all! I realize that some of us might not have grasped the concept of the book, but ive always been a good 'reader', and i thought this book was hard to understand and just plain dull.
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Title: My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier ISBN: 059042792X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Guide for Using Across Five Aprils in the Classroom by Dona Herweck Rice, David Cook, Blanca Apodaca, Teacher Created Materials Inc ISBN: 1576903338 Publisher: Teacher Created Materials Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE ISBN: 0440995779 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 May, 1978 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith ISBN: 006447030X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter ISBN: 0449704378 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 31 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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