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Across Five Aprils

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Author: Irene Hunt

Summary: Across Five Aprils is the story of the American Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young boy living on an Illinois farm, whose older brothers go off to war. One brother fights with the Confederates, the others with the Union Army. Irene Hunt draws from family history, letters and historical research to fashion this fictional story.

Reading Skill Level: 9 - 12 years

Newbery Honor book, 1965.

Reviewed by: Bethany G. Smith, March 2002.

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I liked this thought-provoking book. The human consequences of the Civil War are beautifully portrayed from Abraham Lincoln down to a local farm boy.

Across Five Aprils also shows several different honorable men's opposing opinions about the war, as observed from the viewpoint of a boy who doesn't know what to believe. You get many facts and opinions which portray the passionate beliefs on both sides of the conflict and are left to draw your own conclusions; or you can accept Jethro's —that there is no right conclusion except for that which a man's conscience tells him is right.

(review by Bethany Smith)

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