Shouting at the rain /
Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
- 278 pages ; 22 cm
"By the author of Fish in a Tree"--Dust jacket.
Summary: From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she has neighbors with strong shoulders to support her, and Ronan, a new friend who is caring and courageous but also troubled by the losses he's endured. As Ronan and Delsie traipse around Cape Cod on their adventures, they both learn what it means to be angry versus sad, broken versus whole, and abandoned versus loved. And that, together,
Target audience: Juvenile
9780147516770 9780399175052 9780698196940
2018051566
Grandmothers--Fiction. Family life--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Neighborliness--Fiction. Weather--Fiction.