Most Popular Books by Irene Hunt

From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression. “A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News In 1932, American''s dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. At fifteen years of age, Josh has to make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of a young man’s struggle to find a life for himself in the most turbulent of times.

A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.

The childhood and youth of Julia as she lives with Aunt Cordelia on a farm.

Johnny Appleseed''s good will and humanity towards all living things is felt by a family settling in the Ohio wilderness.

Korean edition of the Newbery Award winner (1967) UP A ROAD SLOWLY by Irene Hunt. This is a coming of age story about a seven year old stubborn little girl Julie growing into a beautiful young lady. Translated by Hong Ju Jin. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

From the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind comes her most beloved story of a girl''s coming of age.

Search the Dark

A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression.

When a bitter mountain man cannot accept his twelve-year-old son''s mental retardation, the boy wanders into the wilderness and finds in a stranger the father he has never had.

Fifteen-year-old Josh struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the 1932 Depression. By the author of the Newbery Award-winner, Up a Road Slowly. Reissue.