Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily shes starting school and that brings new adventures. Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wronglike when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos. And while Hattie tries her best, its not always easy to be well behaved... Hattie is perfect for newly independent readers from Frida Nilsson, whose award-winning The Ice Sea Pirates was an international bestseller.