Irene Hunt
Birth date: May 18, 1907
Died: May 18, 2001
Irene Hunt's Books
This was our last historical fiction read of the year. We read a lot of really great books this year, but this was my personal favorite. The writing is just gorgeous and the story is so beautiful and bittersweet. This is a deeply intimate story of one family and how they cope with the repercussio...
Overall, it was an interesting way to approach the subject of teacher-student bullying and child abuse, but the story could have attempted to dig deeper.
Review: Older middle grade books usually age quite quickly. While The Lottery Rose made some very excellent points, the story was straight-to-the-point and tended to overly generalize the "big mean world" of adults. Perhaps I was not the target audience for such a story. Hunt's writing reflects sha...
At the beginning of Up a Road Slowly, Julie’s mother dies. It is decided that she will go live with her Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher that lives out in the boonies. This section reminded me a lot of something L.M. Montgomery would write (think Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon). J...
Julie was only seven years old when her Mother passed away. She and her brother, Chris, where sent off to live with their Aunt Cordelia. Julie goes from childhood to teenhood and learns much along the way.This book was actually quite wonderful. I found it at my local library and thought it looked in...
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