- Tíos, Retrasados mentales, Family, Uncles
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Ann M. Martin
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc., Paw Prints, Everest
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781435200036
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“On early summer mornings, Millerton is a sleepy town, the houses nodding in the heavy air.”
Ann Martin was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey. She graduated from Smith College in 1978 with a double major in psychology and elementary education. She worked as a teacher and then an editor of children's books. Her first published book was Bummer Summer (1983). She is best known for her Baby-sitters Club series of children's books. In 1990, she created the Ann M. Martin Foundation, which provides grants to causes benefiting children, education and literacy programs, and homeless people and animals. She lives in Hudson Valley, New York.
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