āAustinās message of true friendship and selflessness will resonate...strong addition to the realistic fiction genre.ā - Library Journal
Everyone needs their own special corner...
Itās 1969 and ten-year-old Davy is in a predicament. With two weeks remaining of the summer holidays, heās expelled from the public pool for sneaking into the deep end and almost drowning. How will he break the news to his hard-working single mother? Sheās at the diner all day, Davy has no friends, and heās too young to stay by himself.
The answer lies in his rescuer, mysterious thirteen-year-old Ellis Wynn. Visiting her Grammy for the summer, Ellis offers to babysit Davy. She teaches him about ācornersāāforgotten or neglected areas fixed up special. Together, the kids tackle several ācornersā and Davy learns what it means to bring joy to others.
Davy begins to wonder, though. Why does Ellis want to be his friend? Why doesnāt she ever smile? And is Davy just one of Ellisā ācorners?ā