- Aunts, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
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Earnest, classical in form, spare and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Irene Hunt
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Scholastic Trade, Follett Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780881036688
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“Three children stood outside our gate in the bright October sunlight, silent and still as figurines in a gift shop window, watching each step I took as I came slowly down the flagstone walk across the lawn.”
American children's writer who won the 1967 Newbery Medal with Up a Road Slowly
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