Up a Road Slowly Author:Irene Hunt "Make no mistake about it; "Up a Road Slowly" is one of the rare ones... a remarkable story, a story of the flowering of a young girl's heart. The people that help, that hinder the flowering are described with such real passion--as difficult, asinspiring, as disappointing, as compassionate s real people are--that it's impossible for the reader n... more »ot to feel that they were real people in the author's life. And that is the highest praise there i in this reviewer's typewriter." Publishers' Weekly« less
I consider this book a classic, since I've read it several times during my growing up years. It's one of those coming-of-age stories with a touch of romance thrown in.