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[ 책 소개 ]
* A 2003 Newbery Honor Book
* A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book
* A Book Sense 76 Children's Pick
1960년 여름, 12세 소년 해티는 엄마가 운영하는 하숙집 일을 도우며, 그럭저럭 따분한 하루하루를 보냅니다. 그러던 어느날 해티가 전혀 듣지도 못하고 알지도 못하는 애덤삼촌이 마을에 나타납니다. 애덤 삼촌은 정신적으로 장애가 있어서 오랜 기간 정신병원에 있었는데, 그 병원이 문을 닫게 되는 바람에 가족에게로 돌아오게 된 것이죠. 애덤 삼촌의 돌연한 등장과 그를 돌보는 과정에서 해티는 삶에 대해 새로운 눈을 뜨게 되고...
튼튼한 | 닫기x |  What is 하드커버?
양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다.
판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.
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Edition: Paperback: 189 pages
ISBN: 0439388813
책 크기 : 19.1cm x 13.4cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
The summer she turns 12, Hattie Owen is steeped in the routines of her small town life until the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now that Uncle Adam's "school" - an institution for the mentally disabled - is closing, Hattie's family must deal with a childlike young man whose existence they've denied for years. Hattie suddenly experiences a summer in which she learns living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad.
Annotation
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.
Publisher's Weekly
Martin (Belle Teal; the Baby-Sitters Club series) hints at a life-changing event from the first paragraph of this novel narrated by a perceptive and compassionate 12-year-old, and set in the summer of 1960. Hattie Owen had been anticipating a summer as comfortably uneventful as all the others ("I just want things all safe and familiar," she admits), helping her mother run their boarding house, painting alongside her artist father and reading "piles" of books. Then Uncle Adam (whom Hattie never knew existed) makes a surprise entrance, turning everything upside-down. Hattie's mother says that Uncle Adam has "mental problems." Hattie's grandparents act embarrassed whenever he is around, and her peers laugh at him. The author authentically conveys the ripples Adam sends through this small town. The heroine is continually amazed by his outlandish antics, moved by his sudden mood changes and secretly wonders if she and Adam might be kindred spirits. Hattie finds adventure and tragedy as well as enlightenment as she "lifts the corners of [her] universe" in order to better understand Adam. With characteristic tenderness and wisdom, the author portrays the complex relationship between the sympathetic heroine and her uncle ("I feel a little like his baby-sitter, a little like his mother, not at all like his niece, and quite a bit like his friend"). Readers will relate to Hattie's fear of being as "different" as Adam, and will admire her willingness to befriend an outcast. Hearts will go out to both Hattie and Adam as they step outside the confines of their familiar world to meet some painful challenges.
Children's Literature
The summer of 1960 is quite a life-changing experience for eleven-year-old Hattie Owens who lives in a small town named Millerton. Her parents own a boarding house. Hattie thought she would have the same old predictable summer of spending time with her family's boarders, reading books, and enjoying other favorite pastimes until she meets her Uncle Adam. She didn't know her uncle existed until her Nana and Papa tell her that he is coming to live with them because his "school" has closed down. Hattie is confused and curious as to why she never knew about Adam and can't wait to meet him. When Hattie meets Adam he is excited to see her and quickly starts quoting lines from the "I Love Lucy" show, which Hattie thinks is funny. While she spends time with Adam she begins to understand that he has a mental illness, but Hattie doesn't pay much mind. They develop a friendship on Adam's level, which means a lot to Hattie because she has only one friend who is gone for the summer. Hattie also befriends Leila, whose family owns the traveling carnival in town for the summer. For Hattie's 12th birthday, Adam and Leila want to give a special birthday party. One night during a dinner party, Hattie encourages Adam to sneak out and join her at the carnival, which is the night that changes everyone's lives. Before Adam realizes his fate, he tells Hattie that she is the only one who truly understands him. Ann Martin has written with such compassion, grace, and consideration that the reader can feel Hattie and Adam's endearing friendship. This book is wonderful for those seeking understanding of how individuals with mental illness live and view their lives. It is a gentle book that young adults will tearfullyenjoy and walk away from with a new view of people who are different and the importance of accepting them for who they are. 2002, Scholastic Press, - Christy Oestreich
School Library Journal
Watching home movies, Hattie looks back over the summer of 1960 and the events that changed her perception of life. The 12-year-old has difficulty making friends her own age, but enjoys the company of an elderly boarder, the friendly cook, and her artist father. Her relationship with her mother is sometimes difficult because they must always negotiate clothing and behavior to suit her wealthy, overbearing maternal grandmother. Suddenly, an uncle whom Hattie has never heard of comes to live with her grandparents because his school has closed. Although she is totally shocked at the existence of this rapidly babbling, Lucille Ball-quoting, calendar-savant child in a man's body, Hattie comes to appreciate his affection for her, his exuberance for life, and his courage in facing society's rejection. When she suggests that he sneak out to join her for a night of fun at a carnival, tragedy ensues. Hattie's narration is clear and appealing. Her recollection of the smallest of behaviors shows that each family member has felt both love and pain for her uncle, but could not express it. As she comes to understand what Uncle Adam meant when he spoke of being able to lift the corners of our universe, she is hopeful that her family can learn to heal and communicate. Martin delivers wonderfully real characters and an engrossing plot through the viewpoint of a girl who tries so earnestly to connect with those around her. This is an important story, as evocative on the subject of mental illness as Ruth White's Memories of Summer.
Kirkus Reviews
In July of 1960, just as she is turning 12, Hattie Owen's quiet, solitary summer-occupied with books, the various residents of her parents' boarding house, small errands about town, and avoiding her grandmother-is disrupted, bringing a loss of a kind of innocence and a look at the wide borders of the world. Hattie's autistic, emotionally challenged young uncle returns home to live with his parents after the institutional school in which he has lived half his life-and all of Hattie's-closes permanently. Hattie's well-to-do and severe grandparents are clearly burdened by their difficult child, but Hattie is intrigued, and charmed, by Adam's rapid-fire way of talking, his free-associating, and his liberal use of dialogue from "I Love Lucy." Adam's quirky, childlike enthusiasm and his obvious delight with her endear him to Hattie immediately, as does his vulnerability to Nana's strictures on behavior. When a carnival comes to town Hattie befriends Leila, a girl who travels in the carnival with her family, and it is Adam and Leila who together give Hattie her first birthday celebration among friends. Adam's crush on one of the boarders at the Owens' rooming house is the catalyst for the tragic ending, though Adam's fundamental inability to protect his feelings in the world destroys him. His suicide and its aftermath-his siblings' grief, his mother's sudden remorse, Hattie's courage to speak at his funeral-are nearly unsurprising, but moving nevertheless. In the end Hattie has had a glimpse into, as she says, "how quickly our world can swing between what is comfortable and familiar and what is unexpected and horrifying," and she has opted for herself to live in such a world, to keep lifting thecorners of the universe. Martin's voice for Hattie is likable, clear, and consistent; her prose doesn't falter. A solid, affecting read. |
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