Libraries)] -- A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. This book is a love story but also about a young girl that comes to grow up in the story. 4.3 (43 ratings) Add to Cart failed. Change ). B+. In some ways, this book is the anti-Pollyanna. Life isn't always fair, something that Julie is slowly and painfully realizing. Author: Irene Hunt. Summary: After her mother’s death Julie goes to live with her spinster Aunt Cordelia in a big house in the country.As she grows from seven to seventeen she learns many lessons about life, love, family, friends, judging and ultimately herself. ― Irene Hunt, quote from Up a Road Slowly “We had good long talks about my writing in the days that followed. Julie is seven when her mother dies and she and her older brother are whisked of to live in the country with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster school teacher with a ram rod posture and a ram rod distinction between correct and not. After her mother's death, seven-year-old Julie Trelling is sent to live with her schoolteacher aunt in the country. Anyway, while there’s nothing wrong with that style, it did take me a while to get into the book because of it. As the story carries us from early childhood to the closing of high school we can relate all too well to each and every character introduced as counterparts of our own peers. There's also a small scene where a young forces a kiss on the main character, who punches the. 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. For one thing, it bothered me that I couldn't quite ascertain the era in which the story takes place. ( Log Out /  Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt was a childhood favorite of mine. Not a boy meets girl kind of story, but a girl meets maiden aunt kind of story. We follow Julie through the next ten years as she grows up and begins to understand her world and the adults around her. Start by marking “Up a Road Slowly” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Up A Road Slowly, the 1967 Newbery Award winner, is a thoughtful, delightful book. Running through the spacious rooms, singing on rainy nights in front of the fireplace. Every girl deserves to read this and I can't tell you how pleased I am that it is being reprinted. In some ways, this book is the anti-Pollyanna. Up a road slowly by Hunt, Irene. It was a story about a girl not unlike myself who can be stubborn, makes mistakes, learns lessons, and finds love. There's no attempt to imagine sadness away, or to put a smile where it doesn't belong. The young heroine, Julia, sent to live with a high-minded and compassionate aunt, is susceptible to a whole range of influences, as she passes through protected and self-centered childhood and naive adolescence. Running through the spacious rooms, singing on rainy nights in front of the fireplace. Summary: After her mother’s death Julie goes to live with her spinster Aunt Cordelia in a big house in the country.As she grows from seven to seventeen she learns many lessons about life, love, family, friends, judging and ultimately herself. Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins. For one thing, it bothered me that I couldn't quite ascertain the era in which the story takes place. The End. The girl grows up and discovers who she is and what different kinds of relationships mean to her. I have loved it since I first read it back in third grade, and continued to love it this week. Walking up a road slowly is compared with growing up. Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt was a childhood favorite of mine. 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