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Across Five Aprils

Across Five Aprils


by Irene Hunt

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 190 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Irene Hunt's enduring classic of the Civil War recounts the story of Jethro and his older brothers, who choose to fight on opposite sides during the Civil War. While Jethro grows to adulthood in Illinois (a state neither strictly Yankee nor strictly Reb), his brothers fight and send letters home. Gripping stuff for ages 9-12. (USA44, $6.99)

Naya Nuki, Shoshoni Girl Who Ran

Naya Nuki, Shoshoni Girl Who Ran


by Kenneth Thomasma | Eunice Hundley

  • LITERATURE
  • 1983
  • PAPER
  • 131 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A story of a Native American girl's escape from her captors. (USW316, $7.99)

Stories from Where We Live, The Great North American Prairie

Stories from Where We Live, The Great North American Prairie


by Sara St. Antoine | Paul Mirocha | Trudy Nicholson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 262 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An anthology of writings about this North American ecoregion, from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place. (USM48, $10.95)

The House of Dies Drear

The House of Dies Drear


by Virginia Hamilton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1984
  • PAPER
  • 279 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A novel about a modern family living in a haunted Civil War-era house. (USS258, $6.99)

 

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