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...
Up a Road Slowly is a love story. Not a boy meets girl kind of story, but a girl meets maiden aunt kind of story. 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 r...
I owned a copy of this when I was little and it was a much beloved book. I just came across a reprint on the bargain bookshelf at B&N today and you better believe I snatched it up! So many memories! Can't wait to read with Izzy!
The narrator is superb, the Southern Illinois accent true to the way the people I know from there speak. The story is compelling. My DH walked in right at the end and I was sitting on the couch crying. He asked what the matter was, and I said, "They've killed the President." He knows me fairly well...
Julie’s life changes completely when her mother dies and she is sent to live with her cold, school marmish Aunt Cornelia. At first, Julie hates her new life, but, as time passes, she grows to love and respect her aunt and to love her life in the country. Many years pass as Julie grows from a young c...
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way back...
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