Irene Hunt

Southern Illinois is a place of mixed emotions as the American Civil War erupts. For the Creightons, the war lures two sons to the Union army and one to the Confederacy, leaving 10-year-old Jethro to care for the family farm....

Georgie Burgess has known only neglect and abuse during his seven and a half years of life....

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....

This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life....