Il mio angolo di universo
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788804530671 (8804530677)
Publish date: June 2004
Publisher: Mondadori
Pages no: 185
Edition language: Italian
Hattie Owen enjoys peaceful Millerton summertimes with "houses nodding in the heavy air," being in charge of Miss Hagerty's breakfast tray at her parents' boardinghouse, and drinking lemonade on the porch after supper. Yet this year, it's different -- Hattie's uncle Adam is coming home. Returning fr...
What I liked most about this book was the curiosity, honesty and instinctive kindness of Hatty Owen, the character from who's point of view the story is told. The action of the book is set in the summer of 1960 in the American small town of Millerton. Hattie is eleven, almost twelve, and is deeply c...
A great YA novel.
A great YA novel.
On early summer mornigs. Millerton is a sleepy town, the houses nodding in the heavy air. Not even six-thirty and I can see the humidity seeping through the window shades and covering me like a blanket. Everything I touch is damp.I'm pretty sure I am the only one in the house who is awake. I lie in ...