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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. I have loved it since I first read it back in third grade, and continued to love it this week. What I don't quite understand is WHY I love it. A lot of reviews here liken it to Anne of Green Gables, but outside of the very basic plot (girl goes to live with stern older woman), it's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25236533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Few authors write with deeper perception and feeling than Irene Hunt, and this book—her Newbery Medal winner, for 1967—is a superb example of her skills.<br/> With obvious compassion, the author gently takes us through the young life of Julie, from a small girl to an emerging college student, r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53825523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64826092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, though I'm a bit ashamed to admit it.  I don't really have any clue how it ended up being a Newberry winner (which is the reason I picked it up, having no idea what it was about), because I don't think it's a particularly powerful story line.  Nor is it that well-written.  In fact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27786551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up a Road Slowly is a lovely and poignant coming-of-age story about a young girl who is raised by her stern schoolmarm aunt. The story unfolds so naturally and its first-person narrator is so convincing that it made me wonder if the book is based on the author's life. In spite of its old-fashioned s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63389788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was wonderful but a bit of an enigma. I usually love books for their exciting plots or engaging characters. While this one had wonderful characters, I couldn't find the stereotypical plot, one with huge rising action and a crisis. But throughout the characters' lives and growth, there was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53278700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On my third couch-bound, fever-ridden day, I just re-read this book for the bazillionth time, and like all the other time, I loved it. It's a sweet, simple story with rich characters, especially for a YA-length book. However, it's worth it to buy a very old copy on Amazon with the house/tree cover r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53263272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has become one of my favorite books.  It is a quick read but is thoroughly enjoying.  You fall in love with the characters.  I love a book that allows you to grow with the characters.  You will love all the characters in some way by the end of the book, good or bad.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book mostly because I would like to have read every book on my bookshelf at home. It was an old one I took from my Grandma's house. Very easy, simple and quick read. The story wasn't complex, but there was a lot of relatable emotion that made it likable. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite childhood books.  I reread it recently and thought, &quot;No wonder I liked this book so much as a young girl.&quot;  It is the lovely coming-of-age story of Julie Trelling, a girl who grows up in the care of her spinster Aunt Cordelia after her mother dies.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a coming of age book that I first read and loved in my teens.  I just read it again after &quot;happening&quot; to see it at the library and still love it!  The characters are drawn well, and the book is still pertinent to girls' lives.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book as a young girl. I reread it as an adult and could see why I enjoyed it so much although it was so very different to read as an adult! One to recommend to my daughter some day soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really liked this book! it was pretty sad, but in it Julie learns a lot of things that will help anyone. i guess another reason i like it so much is because in the book Julie wants to be a writer, and so do i.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most Newberry winners would appeal to children of both genders. I can't imagine a teen boy having any interest in this story. I enjoyed the book and feel it brings up some important gender issues, but it isn't a book that I would want to develop a unit plan for. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books when I was growing up.  It has an excellent balance of light and dark, sad and humorous.  I loved the characters, the story, the writing.  I love this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice coming of age book. I would have loved it as a twelve or thirteen year-old. I'm not sure why it won the Newberry Award, which is why I picked it up. It was a sweet book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very easy read, doesn't have too much depth, but I still liked it.  At first I was bored but by the end I thought it was good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in the very early 90s and I loved it.  It was one of three books I was ever assigned for summer reading that I enjoyed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the descriptions and characterizations of Ms. Hunt in this story.  It was a beautiful coming-of-age story.]]></body>
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