Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War.

Across Five Aprils

Children's Books

Hunt, Irene

Literature & Fiction

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Up a Road Slowly (Peacock Books)

Penguin??Books

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

Teen & Young Adult

Silver Burdett Pr

After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen

Up a Road Slowly

Contemporary

Classics

Trail of Apple Blossoms

Johnny Appleseed's good will and humanity towards all living things is felt by a family settling in the Ohio wilderness.

Across 5 Aprils

Amer School Pub

From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression. “A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. At fifteen years of age, Josh has to make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of a young man’s struggle to find a life for himself in the most turbulent of times.

No Promises in the Wind

BERKLEY

After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster shoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.

Berkley_Pub Group

The Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly presents the story of a young boy from a troubled family who learns what it means to love… Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures. When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a grocery store lottery he gives it all the love and caring he’s never had. Georgie’s life begins to open up for him when the courts send him to a home for boys where he will be safe. Slowly, and not without pain, Georgie learns to give—and to receive—love...

Lottery Rose

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Across Five Aprils

Up a Road Slowly (Peacock Books)

Across Five Aprils

Up a Road Slowly

Across Five Aprils

Trail of Apple Blossoms

Across 5 Aprils

No Promises in the Wind

Up a Road Slowly

Lottery Rose