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  <title><![CDATA[Across Five Aprils ]]></title>
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  <default_description>The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton, who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War, by the Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly. &quot;An impressive book both as a historically authentic Civil War novel and as a beautifully written family story.&quot;--University of Chicago Center for Children's Books.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1964</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Across Five Aprils </original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Irene Hunt]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[any student of the American Civil War]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 09 15:29:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 09 15:29:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could find my copy of this.  It's around here somewhere.  I still have the edition I read in high school and I wanted to look up the copywrite date.  The edition I selected here -- obviously -- isn't the one I have but I doubt there's a picture of my edition's cover anywhere on-line, it's s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24093574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24536558">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 15 06:31:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 15 06:33:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[TERRIBLE BOOK.  that is all I have to say. This is about the Civil War and how the main character Jethro is coming of age. This book was so boring that I do not have anything more to say. Do not read it. If you are interested in the Civil War, maybe you should consider it because it gives you a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24536558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45322570">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 03 20:10:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 20:11:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tragic and beautiful, this book describes the deep family divisions which the Civil War caused. War may be captivating, but it is also hell. ]]></body>
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    <review id="70536911">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Across Five Aprils<br/>By Irene Hunt<br/>190 pages<br/>ISBN 10: 0-425-10241<br/><br/>This book takes place in a time where there was still slavery. Abraham Lincon was the president and it focuses on a state in which half were for and the other half was against slavery. This story contains a lot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70536911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24784300">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 18 05:38:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 18 05:41:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated this book so much! I was forced to read it in school and hated it.  I never even had that much intrest in civil war stories anyway. So to say I hated this book was an understatement. I would only reccomend this to you if you are absolutely obsessed with the civil way, but if you aren't dont ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24784300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6486604">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 20 06:22:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 20 06:25:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didnt much like the book, it was a very dry read. It was hard for me to really get into it when they were describe how he had to tend to the farm by himself; I would have liked more action and drama to occure. his mom having caffeen with draws waasnt enough for me to really care...]]></body>
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    <review id="62566902">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 19:53:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 08:10:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will be completely honest and say that I expected very little from this book.  It's old.  It's beat up (in fact I read it in part to see if it was maybe too old for my kids so I would have an excuse to take it off my library shelves). It doesn't look entertaining.  I was interested in the time per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62566902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35088266">
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, boring. :/ It's a book I have to read for school about a nine-year-old boy durring the beginning of the Civil War. But then again, maybe I'm just baised against anything I am <em>forced</em> to read. xD]]></body>
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    <review id="55350451">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 02:00:10 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[War is Approaching!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes. I read this book because I was forced to. It was strangly not as bad as I thought. Its about this boy  named Jethro. He encounters many problems during his time period.... the Civil War time period. His family is all about the War. Him living in the south many favored Slavory while northerners ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77260717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53634751">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book by Irene Hunt, is a great book on the American struggles of a boy in the Civil War Time Period. The Main character named Jethro Chrieghton that lives ina cabin with his family in Illinoise. This book mainly describes the Civil War and the effect it had on the Chrieghton family. This tradge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53634751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77769589">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 14 12:31:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absolute piece of shit. If you can get past the writing style, which is essentially redneck-toungue, you're going to be treated to a boring, predictable tale about some kid and his family while his brothers go off to kill each other in the civil war.<br/><br/>I was made to read this book in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77769589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39985374">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of how the civil war separated one family.  As I recall, one family member chooses to fight for the north and one for the south.  It was a compassionate view of this awful war that did turn brother upon brother.  As a southerner (no matter how liberal), I felt like we weren't demon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39985374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39573051">
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    <body><![CDATA[I always come across books that tell the stories of men and boys that go off to war and of their hardships and experiences in battle, but rarely any books are about the families they left behind. This book tells the story of a young nine year old boy and how he coped with the Civil War at home, awai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39573051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71134224">
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    <body><![CDATA[Across five Aprils is about a young boy in the edge of Yankees territory but almost in the Rebel area.He had alot of tuff choices he was eatheir to be a Yankee(he liked more) and not be with his freinds or to be with the Rebels(he hates) and be with his freinds.When he figures out his sister's boyfr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71134224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49372726">
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is about a young boy named Jethro Creighton. Jethro has some relatives who are in the Civil war and he is very interested in the Issues of the war. He sends a letter to President Abraham Lincoln who later is assasinated in the book. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ! What i have learned fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49372726">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 19 17:53:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say, this is one of the single worst books that I've ever read, this and &quot;A Light in the Forest&quot; (on which I have written essays on it's literary monstrosity). It doesn't help that I am required to analyze it until all meaning is lost, and the plot falls apart under such scrutiny...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56677991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book on tape while I was on the treadmill for a few weeks.  I enjoyed it.  Listening to Jethro's life as he grew up from the baby of the family at 9 years, to becoming the man of the family while all of his brothers are off fighting in the Civil War was  illuminating.  I liked the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55617249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like what the NY Times called this book: &quot;a prize to those who take the time to read it, whatever their ages.&quot;  It's a Civil War story about a family torn by divided loyalties and by the tragedies that come with war.  Yet they remain loving to one another in the midst of pain and divisio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46400180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Across Five Aprils, a 1965 Newbery Honor Title and also a recipient of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, is a children's Classic Historical Fiction (7th grade and up). Irene Hunt pulls from the rich heritage left her from her Grandfather who was age nine when Civil War began, and from these stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28522257">more...</a>]]></body>
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