Initially, Julie doesn’t like her new environment. Aunt Cordelia is an unmarried schoolteacher, while Uncle Haskell, who lives in a converted carriage house on the property, is an alcoholic, a pathological liar, and an aspiring writer. Her relatives live in a large house outside of town. Though Julie lives with her father, her brother, Chris, and her sister, Laura, her doctors believe that she will benefit from a change of scenery, so Julie is sent to live with Aunt Cordelia and Uncle Haskell. Seven-year-old elementary school student Julie Trelling is diagnosed with hysteria when her mother dies. The year after its publication, Up a Road Slowly won a Newbery Medal from The Association for Library Service to Children. Hunt’s narrative addresses themes of grief, loss, growing up, responsibility, family, and the concept of home. The narrative follows the protagonist, Julie Trelling, as she grows in maturity from seven to seventeen years of age while living with Aunt Cordelia and Uncle Haskell. Up A Road Slowly is a poignant work of children’s fiction by American author Irene Hunt, published in 1966.
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