Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War
The beloved Newbery Award-winning classic about a young girl who journeys slowly up the road to womanhood is now available in this brand-new mass-market edition.
School & Library Binding
(Turtleback Books, Jan. 8, 2002)
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Fifteen-year-old Josh struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the 1932 Depression. By the author of the Newbery Award-winner, Up A Road Slowly.