Customer Reviews

Up a Road Slowly

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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.

This is the best book I have ever read, not necessarily because its a real page-turner, but because the message it gives to anyone who reads it goes deeper. The story is about Julie Trelling growing up in her Aunt Cordelia's house in the country after her mother dies. Julie is seven at the time and the story ends when she is 17. Through the story Julie learns to deal with loss, embarassment, friendship, and most importantly love.
Many characters such as Uncle Haskell, Brett Kingsman, Laura and Danny Trevort help Julie to feel these things. This book also has a very witty dialogue and the characters are not perfect, thus being real. You can't help but feel moved and better after reading this book.

When I was in 5th Grade about 15 years ago, a substitute teacher read this book aloud to us. I thought it started out slowly, but soon was completely cought up in it. Several years later, I completely forgot the title and author of the book and only remembered that it was about a girl growing up under the guidance of her Aunt. I was looking at the newberry awards section of our local library several years ago and was very surprised and pleased to have finally found it. I enjoyed it even more in my mid-twenties the second time around. Irene Hunt has a fluid, almost lyrical way of writing that really captured me. Her characters are so complex and richly described. Overall, this is a gem of a book...

I read this book when I was twelve years old. I was lost in the beauty of the language and Hunt's description of ordinary things such as berries in a bowl. Her characters were alive in my soul. They moved me in ways no other book had ever done. Julie Trelling's story was sad and triumph; poignant and beautiful. This is one book I highly recommend to anyone who wants to fall in love with characters and read a book that you won't be able to put down.

I loved the book Up A Road Slowly by Irene Hunt. I thought the story of Julie Trelling growing from a spoiled child to a gentle and kind young woman was very beautiful and touching. When Julie is first sent to live with her Aunt Cordellia after her mother died, she is a tomboy with a mind of her own. As the book progresses, Julie begins to grow up and view her world in a different way.

This book is great because it shows growing into womanhood the way it is: hard. Irene Hunt didn't make Julie seem like she always was perfect like some books make their main charactors. I would recomend this book to anybody over the age of ten.

I am in fourth grade and I loved this book. It was very touching, and it talked about a wonderful girl named Julie Trelling. I think I would like to be her. This is my favorite book-next to Harry Potter!

I've noticed that quite a few people mentioned this book as plotless and boring. Granted, if you're looking for a thriller, this isn't the book for you. I read this book a few years ago and loved it, one of those books you grow up in, read over and over again, a dear friend. But I've forgotten about it until about midnight last night. All the sudden I had an instant craving for the book, like I had to read it IMMEDIATELY. But that's me, and everyone's taste in literature is different. And taste changes, I don't know that if I picked up the book again, that I would love it as much as I did when I was twelve, but I nonetheless have very fond memories of it. I guess I would compare it to Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, or the Anne of Green Gables series. They don't have plots, per se, like an adventure story, or horror, sci fi, or fantasy, they're in the comming to age category in which you appreciate life, childhood, innocence, maturity and the sweetest budding romance. There is heartbreak in this book, and happiness and joy and love. Not that I don't enjoy other genres, but this book will stay with you because it is comforting. Perhaps it is slow for those looking for action, or boring for those looking for suspense, but if thrill is what you're looking for, I don't know why you'd ever choose to read Up A Road Slowly in the first place.

Sonia

When I first saw this book I thought it was going to be just another boring book. Well, I was wrong. After the first few chapters, I thought this was the best book that I ever read. It was a book with alot af characters that I could relate to. It also had alot of morals witch will help me in the future. My favorite character is Aunt Cordelia because she was like another character that I saw in my favorite show ( Boy Meets World ) Mr. Finni. Like Mr. Finni, Aunt Cordelia taught Julie lessons without really telling her and I admire her for that. This book changed my way of thinking so I recomend this book to anyone of any age because the words are easy to read and it is easy to understand.

I am a 7th grade teacher who uses this book as a novel in the classroom. It is a heartwarming story about Julie Trelling trying to understand the circumstances of her mother's death and having to live with her aunt that she doesn't really care for. It is amazing how you can watch the characters mature and grow into adulthood right before your very eyes. My class and I are very sad that the book is now out of print. It is a genuine classic.

This is an interesting and very well-written book. It's a shame it is not better known; a fate it shares with several other excellent books!

I read this first in my teens, and then forgot the title and name of the author, having borrowed it from the library. But scenes from it kept surfacing in my mind, until I came across it again last year, thirty-two years later.

It is the kind of book which thoughtful girls, who really enjoy reading will like, as it describes the growing up of Julie, who is bookish and a lover of words, herself. Irene Hunt portrays her characters subtly and with depth. Although Julie is the "heroine", my favourite character is actually her Aunt Cordelia, whose "sterling" qualities are gradually revealed through the novel. Seeming on the surface to be rather stern and inflexible, Irene Hunt shows us glimpses into her past, and how despite her unhappy childhood and the sacrifices she made for her family, she developed into a strong, loving, principled woman. Although Julie begins not liking Aunt Cordelia, with whom she is sent to live after her mother's death, the two end up with a very close relationship.

Aunt Cordelia is still a role-model of mine - there that's my secret out!