Today's book...

Across Five Aprils by Some-Person-Who-Deserves-Torture.

No freaking joke.

Witch Season has nothing on this.

I would happily right a positive report on Witch Season rather then read this book again.

Problems:
1. Characters

The main guy who was named Jeb or Jethro or something like that had like 7 brothers. Apparently we were suppose to be able to tell them apart.

No such luck.

One brother died...I think. I'm still not really clear on that. Don't ask me which brother or what side he was fighting for(takes place during civil war) because I would just laugh at you.

Another brother went to fight for the confederates...Which was a big no-no because they were from the North...I wonder how he even registered since it was probably really obvious he was from the North and not the South.

Or maybe it was the other way around. None the less now that I think about it I have no clue how/why he went to the oposite side.

Frankly I don't really care why either.

2. No Plot/Point

I don't know why the author wrote this book. Other then to confuse people everywhere.

Here is what I remember from the book(Iread this in 7th grade)

1. Jebthro farms
2. Jebthro has too many siblings
3. Jebthro's mother is a coffee addict
4. Jebthro has a nice teacher
5. People don't like that Bill/Bob(One of Jebthro's many siblings) went to join the oposite side
6. One of Jebthro's brothers dies
7. Jebthro stays with his teacher during a blizzard
8. They(random teenagers) put dirt in Jebthro's families well
9. They(same random teenagers) scare the dogs?
10. Jebthro's families barn gets burned down by the random teenaers.
11. Jebthro's brother Billbo comes home. It's a tearful reunion.

I bet you're feeling excited just from reading that.

Oh and here's how the book starts:

"Time to farm some taters" or something along those lines.

I've blocked it from my mind.

I loathe this book.

Anyone who had to read it loathes this book.

On the library website it is tied for worst book.

My friend almost had to read it but her class stopped after two pages and her teacher decided it was pointless so they read a different book(no joke)

After my class read it our LA teacher took it out of school required books.

Teachers-LA teachers hate this book and see how dumb it is.

And when that happens, you know it's bad.