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Title	:	Up a Road Slowly
Author	:	Irene Hunt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 197 pages
Published	:	January 4th 2005 by Berkley (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

Up a Road Slowly

Irene Hunt

Paperback | Pages: 197 pages

Rating: 4 | 6159 Users | 542 Reviews

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Without a doubt, beyond compare, my favorite book ever. Up a Road Slowly is the book sent to me by my closest aunt the fall after my father died. It came with a note telling me how much she treasured the book and hoped that it would find a place in my heart too. Whether it was because the book came from such an influence in my life or because I was still emotionally raw when I read it, (or maybe because it's a Newberry Award winning novel,) Up a Road Slowly struck a chord within me that has never ceased to play on my heart. I try to read it once a year or so, and nearly twenty years later, it still speaks to me.

Up a Road Slowly is the coming-of-age story of Julie Trelling, a girl of seven who's sent to live with a spinster aunt in the country after her mother's death. The story follows her elementary school experiences of friendships forged and lost, classmates who are both mercilessly teased and teasers, and the painfully real outcasting of a mentally handicapped girl. The story of Julie's first love and its loss is poignant and completely relatable. (Who among us hasn't out of loneliness fancied a rather shoddy love into something beautiful?) My favorite passages in the book are the one in which Julie learns life's lessons. Irene Hunt, the author, has a way of injecting the truths I wish someone had told me in a way that is neither preachy or unbelievable.

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Original Title:	Up a Road Slowly
ISBN:	0425202054 (ISBN13: 9780425202050)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal (1967), Zilveren Griffel (1972), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1968)

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Ratings: 4 From 6159 Users | 542 Reviews

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Read for 5420 classI am so thankful that jFics have come a long way since Up a Road Slowly was published in 1966 because this book was just awful. Firstly, the emotions Julie experiences are much too mature and nuanced for a seven-year-old, which doesn't lend verisimilitude to the narration, even though it is told from adult Julie's perspective. This adult point-of-view also lends a didactic tone to the overall story, which adds to the impatience and frustration I felt as I read Up a Road

This books is a very interesting mix of early era Newbery winners (glorification of the past and rural "honest" living, clear moral of the story, and complete with a few cringeworthy moments, (view spoiler)[in this case, a problematic depiction of a girl with a cognitive disability from a bad home, who is very poorly treated and ends up dying in order for the main character to have a moment for growth. There's also a small scene where a young forces a kiss on the main character, who punches the

The book is written in the style of a memoir, which gives it feel (at least to me) of really being a book about childhood and growing up for adults.I was very frustrated by the lack of placement in time or place in the text, which was not assisted at all by the cover of the paperback copy that I read which features a pretty modern looking (if on the sentimental, traditional side) teenager. For a book published in the middle of the 1960s, it seemed to me to extraordinarily nostalgic of a simpler,

I started this book off determined that it was going to be boring and I would just blah my way through it only because it is a Newbery. (Have to read all Newbery books, you know, one of those life quest things.) I usually dislike books that are just random stories from some person's life, most likely some young girl from a tragic background who always ends up being a great writer. However, I loved this book. I don't know why because it was everything I thought it was going to be. But I loved it.

4.5 stars. Lovely story about a feisty girl raised by her Aunt Cordelia, a schoolteacher maternal aunt in a rural school. We meet Julie at age 7 after losing her mother and watch her grow into a 17-year old Julie as she graduates from high school. This book reminds me of the Anne of Green Gables series. Likes:* Julie's academic family* Laura, Julie's older sister(view spoiler)[* Danny Trevort helping Aunt Cordelia at school and at her home* Alicia, Julie's accomplished step mother and high

After I posted a story of a telephone interchange I had as a girl shortly after my mom's sudden death, a friend remarked that my story reminded her of this book. Last night I needed some escapist literature. I always say, Better an excellent children's book than some shoddy pulp fiction. I was in the perfect melancholy mood to appreciate Irene Hunt's novel in a minor key. I read it in one sitting and my responses have been brewing ever since.Will it be a five star book for you? I don't know. The

I love this book. I have loved it since I first read it back in third grade, and continued to love it this week. What I don't quite understand is WHY I love it. A lot of reviews here liken it to Anne of Green Gables, but outside of the very basic plot (girl goes to live with stern older woman), it's not at all similar, in plot or style. It's incredibly old-fashioned, in thoughts and terms and story. The language and how it flows is very 1960s, and reminds me a bit of Madeleine L'Engle's