Author
Irene Hunt
2 books here
Up a Road Slowly
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 780L · 1986
A quietly devastating Newbery winner about grief and coming-of-age that respects the intelligence of its readers—literary, slow-paced, and genuinely moving without sentimentality.
Across Five Aprils
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 780L · 2002
The gold standard for introducing the Civil War through a child's eyes—emotionally mature, historically rigorous, and completely unsentimental about the cost of conflict.