Hunt, Irene

A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression.

When a bitter mountain man cannot accept his twelve-year-old son's mental retardation, the boy wanders into the wilderness and finds in a stranger the father he has never had.

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.

A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.

After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.

A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.

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.

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.