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Summary: This book is a gentle, wise portrait of growing up.
Review: I'm sorry Up A Road Slowly is out of print. I had wanted to purchase it for my niece's bat mitzvah. The book is a lovely, wise, gentle portrait of growing up, the complexities of love, and the goodness of people - as well as being a compelling story. Up A Road Slowly is the kind of book you can read more than once - that is high praise.
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read....
Review: I've read A LOT of books, and this is one of the few I read when I was a kid and would still read today. Yes, it is that good. I first was suggested this book by my fifth grade teacher, mainly because I had gone through all the Nancy Drew books in the school library. I read this book over and over and over again. The story just keeps getting better and better. I sincerely think that even adults would enjoy reading this book, the story is so good and the characters excellently developed. Reading about Julie growing up and figuring things out made me feel a lot better about the process of growing up and how not everything goes the way you want it to, but it all works out in the end.
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read....
Review: I've read A LOT of books, and this is one of the few I read when I was a kid and would still read today. Yes, it is that good. I first was suggested this book by my fifth grade teacher, mainly because I had gone through all the Nancy Drew books in the school library. I read this book over and over and over again. The story just keeps getting better and better. I sincerely think that even adults would enjoy reading this book, the story is so good and the characters excellently developed. Reading about Julie growing up and figuring things out made me feel a lot better about the process of growing up and how not everything goes the way you want it to, but it all works out in the end.
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Summary: A Novel To Remember
Review: If I must decide, I think this book, Up A Road Slowly, deserves four stars. Each new chapter seemed as if it was opening a new chapter of my life. This novel was about a young girl names Julie; this story tells about her heartache and happiness. I rene Hunt trluy enchants a reader with her writing. I would recommend this wonderfully written book to all readers who want to be amazed, along with many others Hunt has beautifully constructed.
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Summary: a book for every girl you know
Review: If you were ever a child, ever an adolescent, you will understand Julie. I saw a lot of myself in her when I read this as a middle school dreamer. Irene Hunt's coming-of-age novel is a remarkably moving work - and therefore, timeless.Little Julie Trelling and her older brother Chris are left to live with their firm, but kind Aunt Cordelia when her father is widowed. Bright, sensitive, and a bit of a rebel, Julie faces the tough challenges of growing up smart and female. During her childhood, Julie learns bittersweet lessons in heartbreak and compassion and justice and love as only as children do. As idyllic as her country life seems, there is prejudice, meanness, and smallness of human spirit in all corners of the world. Hunt emphasizes her point by making the time and place settings vague. We could all be a Julie living in a no-name town. As Julie grows up from a young child of seven to seventeen, she tells her story in a voice both immediate and honest. So you feel her triumphs, spirit, wrongs, and experiences in "real time." Hunt creates a vibrantly alive character who draws you in with her compelling point of view. While this is primarily Julie's story, you meet the formidable Aunt Cordelia, whose own life could have been Julie's life. Both women are strong, admirable portrayals, making this an excellent book for girls. Other memorable characters are Alicia, Danny, Carlotta, and Aggie. The book isn't all lessons and wisdom. It's mostly evocative and reflective, stringing together significant moments in growing up with precise detail of everyday things (like windowsills and bowls of berries), rather than being action-packed or plot-driven. Hunt tell us that growing up isn't simple, but you're also never alone even when you want to be, as even enemies and bad experiences shape us as much as the loved ones and good times do. Up a Road Slowly is written poignantly and intimately. Every girl deserves to read this and I can't tell you how pleased I am that it is being reprinted. I'm going to buy up quite a few copies for friends and family.
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Summary: a book for every girl you know
Review: If you were ever a child, ever an adolescent, you will understand Julie. I saw a lot of myself in her when I read this as a middle school dreamer. Irene Hunt's coming-of-age novel is a remarkably moving work - and therefore, timeless. Little Julie Trelling and her older brother Chris are left to live with their firm, but kind Aunt Cordelia when her father is widowed. Bright, sensitive, and a bit of a rebel, Julie faces the tough challenges of growing up smart and female. During her childhood, Julie learns bittersweet lessons in heartbreak and compassion and justice and love as only as children do. As idyllic as her country life seems, there is prejudice, meanness, and smallness of human spirit in all corners of the world. Hunt emphasizes her point by making the time and place settings vague. We could all be a Julie living in a no-name town. As Julie grows up from a young child of seven to seventeen, she tells her story in a voice both immediate and honest. So you feel her triumphs, spirit, wrongs, and experiences in "real time." Hunt creates a vibrantly alive character who draws you in with her compelling point of view. While this is primarily Julie's story, you meet the formidable Aunt Cordelia, whose own life could have been Julie's life. Both women are strong, admirable portrayals, making this an excellent book for girls. Other memorable characters are Alicia, Danny, Carlotta, and Aggie. The book isn't all lessons and wisdom. It's mostly evocative and reflective, stringing together significant moments in growing up with precise detail of everyday things (like windowsills and bowls of berries), rather than being action-packed or plot-driven. Hunt tell us that growing up isn't simple, but you're also never alone even when you want to be, as even enemies and bad experiences shape us as much as the loved ones and good times do. Up a Road Slowly is written poignantly and intimately. Every girl deserves to read this and I can't tell you how pleased I am that it is being reprinted. I'm going to buy up quite a few copies for friends and family.
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Summary: Literary Analysis for Up a Road Slowly
Review: In an original tale of young girl growing up Irene Hunt uses wonderful devices to get your mind thinking of how life really is. [ The literary devices and the mood/atmosphere that Irene Hunt uses makes the story even better.] Some of the magical literary devicesthat she uses are, "The children stood outside our gate in the bright October sunlight, silent and still as figurines in a gift shop window, watching each step I took as I came slowly down the flagpole across the lawn," which is wonderful imagery. She also uses great rhyme such as, "God, I am push the glass apart and lay my finger on your heart!" Irene has many other devices too but one of the greatest ones are, " There were wide marbled-topped fireplaces in the library, living room, and dining room, even in in some of the bedrooms upstairs, but there was no central heating and in the winter the beauty of the rooms downstairs was married by great coal-burning stoves that too often belched black smoke, when a damper was inadequately adjusted." That sentence had actually two literary devices, a magic 3, and a hyperbole. Irene Hunt also not only has a talent for literary devices but she is also great at setting a mood/ atmosphere.
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Summary: Up a Road Slowly
Review: Its about this girl named Julie Who would remember her happy days with her Aunt Cordelia's forever.And she loved running in the spacious rooms, singing on the rainy nights in front of the blazing fireplace.There were the rides in the woods on Peter the Great and the races with Danny Trevort.
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Summary: The best book I ever read
Review: My name is Scat ( short for Michael Scatena ) I am a 7th grade student at Wyoming Area High School that doesn't really like to read. After I read this book, I love to read. Now every day after school instead of watching tv, I pick up a book and read. While we were reading this book, I would take home a packet, and read ahead. Anyway I love this book. My favorite character is Aunt Cordelia because like my other favorite character in my favorite tv show, Aunt Cordelia taught Julie lessons, without really telling her. This book changed my way of thinking about people that aren't as fortunate as me. I recommend this book to anyone above the 3rd grade because its easy to read and its very easy to understand.
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Summary: How SAD :( that this is out of print!
Review: My seventh grade daughter has a book list from school and I have been horrified at how many of the titles on the list are about violence, suicide, terror, abuse, etc. Finally, I came across Up a Road Slowly in the library and found a different kind of book. It is a wonderful story, with realistic characters and many valuable life lessons. It is inspirational for young teenage girls (and others who can remember what growing pains are like). It is especially so for anyone who thinks they may want to become a writer some day. I went to the bookstore today to buy it for my daughter and was saddened to learn it is out of print. Am I the only one who likes books with morals and happy endings?
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