A Corner of the Universe Author: Ann M. Martin
	Book Information Publisher: Scholastic Book Type: Paperback Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780439579230 - ISBN-10: 0439579236 Publication Date: 2003 Pages: 189

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,