Ann M Martin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Twelve-year-old Hattie learns that living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad upon the closing of her Uncle Adam's "school"- an institution for the mentally disabled.