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Hunt, Lynda Mullaly. SHOUTING AT THE RAIN New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019. IL 5-8 ISBN 9780399175152 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Delsie loves a good summer storm, but the storm that is brewing has nothing to do with the weather. She doesn’t remember her mom and wants to know why her mother left her to be raised by her Grammy. Was it because something is wrong with Delsie? Didn’t her mother love her? As Delsie struggles to understand the absence of her mother, her oldest friend outgrows her, and she meets a newcomer to Cape Cod. Ronan is an angry boy with a reputation as a liar and a thief and has his own family problems. On their adventures around Cape Cod, their friendship grows as they strive to weather the storms that their lives have become. Will Delsie and Ronan be the same after weathering the storms they are facing or will the storms change them? Read Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt to find out! (Prepared by:Jenny Cox, Georgetown Middle School, jmcox@gcsd.k12.sc.us ) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Weather-loving Delsie has always lived on Cape Cod with Grammy, but lately she wishes she could have a "regular family." This summer she struggles with stormy feelings about her mother’s abandonment and a friend who’s recently outgrown her. But with the help of caring neighbors and some adventures with a new friend, Delsie learns that she is not alone in weathering this storm. Realistic Fiction. (Rhode Island Children's Book Award 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Grandmothers -- Fiction. Family life -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Neighborliness -- Fiction. Weather -- Fiction. Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction. |
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