Irene Hunt's Across Five Aprils

In May, the Nominee of the Newberry Prize was written by Eileen Hunter telling the story of her grandfather JETRO 's "family life" during the civil war. It not only makes people feel the war feeling but also tells you exactly what they left. Jethro was forced to make a tough decision and he faced the difficulties of many boys he could not accept at his age. This is a praiseworthy historical novel book, the reader can judge whether it is the best choice at home or a war soldier.

"May - April" is a novel by Eileen Hunt, published in 1964, and the winner of Newberry Honor of 1965, created during the Civil War. Hunter is right next to her grandfather, and her young man tells her story and puts it into "May 4". May 4th is often considered the first novel of genre for young people. Hunter published her first book, May 4, at the age of 57. She studied historical facts and comprehensive stories my grandfather told her. The Clayton family is recorded in these stories, letters and records. Like Jethro, the main character of the book, when the civil war broke out her grandfather was only 9 years old, Hunt used him as a career to imagine what the family had to pass at that time It was.

Irene Hunt has written many excellent books for young people. Her first novel, Across Five Aprils, received the Newberry Honor Book and received Lewis Carroll Shelf. In her second novel "Slow on the Road", Mr. Hunt received a Newberry medal. Mr. Hunter was born in southern Illinois and has a degree at the University of Illinois and Colorado. She has taught at public schools in the northern Illinois state for many years, and then she taught psychology at the University of South Dakota. Hunter lives in Florida

On 5th April, Irene Hunt talked about how to tear the family at a difficult time in the civil war. This book tells the life of Jethro Creighton, a young farm boys from Illinois rural areas who have received education from a protected 9-year-old child in the confusion of civil war and grew into a responsible young adult. At the beginning of the book, Jethro had a romantic and false idea of ​​what war is. In addition to what he heard from the hero's story of the old war, Jethro knew little about war. His brothers went one by one to various aspects of war. Until then he noticed conversation at home and his brother's letter on the battlefield, the real fear and the end of the war.