The summer Hattie turns 12, her predictable smalltown life is turned on end when her uncle Adam returns home for the first time in over ten years. Hattie has never met him, never known about him. He's been institutionalized; his condition invovles schizophrenia and autism.
Hattie, a shy girl who prefers the company of adults, takes immediately to her excitable uncle, even when the rest of the family -- her parents and grandparents -- have trouble dealing with his intense way of seeing the world. And Adam, too, sees that Hattie is special, that her quiet, shy ways are not a disability,
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9780439388818
Pages: 189
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 01/05/2004 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 01/05/2004
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 63410 / Corner of the Universe
Reading Level: 4.5 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 6