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Loading... Up a Road Slowlyby Irene Hunt
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Great book about building character & adjusting to difficult life circumstances. ( )While this 1967 Newbery Medal winner is not a page turner, nor does it have the gripping, heart wrenching events that occurred in some other Newbery award winners, such as Out of the Dust. Missing May or The Higher Power of Lucky, it is a book I would recommend. The story is a simple one of a strong willed, stubborn, feisty seven year old who, when her mother died, moved in the country with an older, school teacher Aunt. The beauty of the book is in the elegant writing of the author as she superbly crafts the stages of maturation and the examples set by the Aunt as she tempers the headstrong, impetuous girl through adult hood. This book is good but I am not a fan of across five aprils i thought it went on forever!! A review of this Book is basically a teen growing up in the country area with her Grandma.Realizing the importrance of Life, Love, Family, and Freinds. Almost all the way through this book, it hit me: This book is exactly like Anne of Green Gables. It's got the same old-fashioned feel (I can't believe it's supposed to take place in the 1960s!), the same breakneck, covers-10-years pace, the same strict, unfamiliar new household, the same terse style of "We kissed and I realized I'd always loved him; the end." I did enjoy Julie's personality and her way of overcoming her various difficulties, but I didn't get enough character development (hello, Danny?) and certainly not enough scene description. Enjoyable, like Anne was, but not instructive or vivid to me. no reviews | add a review
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