![]() ![]() Signs announcing a traveling carnival promise just enough summer excitement. Penny’s clocks, admiring chic Angel Valentine, and helping the storekeepers in Millerton. Hattie enjoys making elderly Miss Hagerty’s breakfast, winding Mr. Hattie’s one friend from school, Betsy, is out of town for the summer, but most of Hattie’s friends are older anyway. She will not have to deal with socially stressful situations like class presentations and P.E., or snotty mean girls like Nancy O’Neil and Janet White. For a few months, she can do what she loves best: read, paint with her artist father, chat with the residents of their family-run boardinghouse, and take her daily walk into sleepy, small-town Millerton. ![]() It is the summer of 1960 and Hattie is finally on vacation. Pagination for this study guide refers to the 2004 Scholastic Gold edition. ![]() The novel was also named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A Corner of the Universe received a Newbery Honor Award in 2003, as well as starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist. Drawing on her own family history for the novel, Martin takes a powerful look at the stigmatization of mental illness. ![]()
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