by Irene Hunt
This was our last historical fiction read of the year. We read a lot of really great books this year, but this was my personal favorite. The writing is just gorgeous and the story is so beautiful and bittersweet. This is a deeply intimate story of one family and how they cope with the repercussio...
The narrator is superb, the Southern Illinois accent true to the way the people I know from there speak. The story is compelling. My DH walked in right at the end and I was sitting on the couch crying. He asked what the matter was, and I said, "They've killed the President." He knows me fairly well...
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way back...
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