School Library Journal, April 1st, 2002
(unabr.) 4 cassettes or 5 CDs. 6 hrs. Audio Bookshelf. 2002. cassette, ISBN 1-88333-4845: $34.95; CD, ISBN 1-88333-75-3. $44.95. Gr 4-8--Irene Hunt's Civil War novel (Berkley Pub., 1986) takes listeners from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lincoln's assassination as seen through the eyes of a Southern Illinois farm boy. Jethro Creighton is nine when his close knit family learns that hostilities have broken out. As numerous male relatives go off to fight for the North and the South, and after his father falls ill, young Jethro takes responsibility for the family farm. With help from an...
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