Too young to fight in the Civil War with his brothers, Jethro learns to survive harsh winters and backbreaking farmwork. His greatest battle, however, is with a masked rider who murdered his sister and who will live in his nightmares until he can avenge her death.
year: 1964, 1986, 1993, 2002, 1965, 1984
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: united states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, juvenile fiction, newbery, historical fiction, fiction, illinois, 1861-1865, civil war, united states history civil war, 1861-1865, farm life, fiction, coming of age, juvenile literature, fiction, historical fiction, illinois, audiobooks, confederate states of america
Editions
Hunt, Irene
Follett Pub. Co (1964)
Jethro, who is nine years old when the first April blooms, must run the farm in southern Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers on the home front prove as exciting as those in battle.
Schools: 15
Hunt, Irene
Berkley Books (1986)
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.
Schools: 6
Hunt, Irene
Schools: 0
Hunt, Irene
Silver Burdett Press (1993)
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.
Schools: 1
Hunt, Irene
Berkley Jam Books (2002)
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.
Schools: 9
Hunt, Irene
Grosset & Dunlap (1965)
Schools: 1
Hunt, Irene
Tempo (1984)
Schools: 0
Hunt, Irene
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.
Schools: 7
Hunt
Schools: 0
Hunt
Schools: 0
Duffey, Todd
Too young to fight in the Civil War with his brothers, Jethro learns to survive harsh winters and backbreaking farmwork. His greatest battle, however, is with a masked rider who murdered his sister and who will live in his nightmares until he can avenge her death.
Schools: 0
Hunt, Irene
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.
Schools: 2
Duffey, Todd
Too young to fight in the Civil War with his brothers, Jethro learns to survive harsh winters and backbreaking farmwork. His greatest battle, however, is with a masked rider who murdered his sister and who will live in his nightmares until he can avenge her death.
Schools: 1