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is something magical about the team of Nancy Paulsen and Lynda Mullaly Hunt!

Shouting at the Rain is the story of Delsie who lives with her grandma while trying to navigate feelings of being abandoned.
. . by her mother when she was a baby and now by her best friend, Delsie has always felt energized by the storms that brew off the Cape, but now that her entire life feels like a storm is on the horizon, Delsie is feeling fragile and insecure about her family and its missing pieces, as well as how she fits with her friend Brandy and Tressa, the new girl on the scene.
This is a true heartprint book about love, loss, friendship and moving forward, I cant wait to get this in the hands of my students! Blah blah blah, friends are the family you choose for yourself, blah blah, REALLY cheesy dialogue and /so/ many /words/ were /emphasized/ that they /dang/ lost their /impact/! Seriously, the dialogue was insufferable and even Delsie's inner monologue was stilted and awkward and weird.
Pg.: "I see Henry laugh, and I am grateful that I can't hear it, And yet I long to, . . " what the hell kinda middleschooler even THINKS like that I liked "Fish in a Tree" because I hadn't had the dyslexic perspective before, but this book brings nothing new to the genre.
The various friends fade in and out in lazy ways Aimee and what'shisname at the Annie play are just there to move plot points along, "Annie's an orphan and I'M an orphan! Gasp! Realization! Plot point! The play itself will never be relevant again!" And Madame Schonfeld or whatever UGHHH NO,

Gripe: It makes no sense for Tressa to have kittens, She's a summer person. Did she bring her unspayed cat on vacation and it got knocked up which is so irresponsible Or did they bring their pregnant cat on vacation which seems very weird Or was there a neighborhood stray and they've somehow taken on the responsibility of adopting out the kittens vs just taking them to the humane society which doesn't make sense To me, this was kind of like a "quiet book".
While dealing with so many important issues and themes, it wasn't in your face like so many other Middle Grade Books I have read before love those also,

I really enjoyed the setting of this story, Cape Code, and Delsie was a great character, I usually LOVE books where one of the other main characters is a much older person, Delsie's mother is gone, and she is taken care of by her Grammy, Delsie is very much at a comingofage time in her life she is seeing so many changes within her life and her surroundings, She is growing out of an old friendship and finding a new one in the boy who is new on the Cape, who has many problems of his own.
There is quite a bit about bullying, and how Delsie learns to deal with and overcome it, She also spends some time longing for her absent mother and a regular family, and I love how she realizes that so many others love and accept her as if she was their own.
She often felt abandoned by her mother but comes to know that she is never really alone, Family is so much more than blood and having the same name!

LOVED the Author's note at the end!and/stars, Lynda Mullally Hunt is the author of my favorite book of all time, A Fish in a Tree, so when I saw that she had other books, I had to get it, and it was definitely worth theweek wait from the library.
this book was so enjoyable, the characters were so relatable and I think LM Hunt wrote the book so beautifully, there were multiple quotes that were so beautiful that I literally wrote them down and tapped them to my wall, if you like contemporary books, this is definitely one for u For Kaskaboom: Another winner from Lynda Mullaly Hunt, What a wonderful story for young people trying to figure out who they are and how to look at the world, Recommended for my two granddaughters, Move over Carley and Ally, Delsie and Ronan need a little room to grow in my heart as well, Lynda Mullaly Hunt once again brings her characters to life through honesty, heartbreak, love, tears, laughter, and friendship, Delsie and Ronan handle their similar situations in different ways, but in the end they both learn that they are loved and together they can handle whatever is thrown their way.
They discover that they their own strong shoulders as they support the ones they love, I am in love with Shouting at the Rain, Delsie and Ronan will live within the heart of the readers for a very long time, I did really like this book, Compared to Lynda Mullaly Hunt's other books though, I felt as though it was kind of unoriginal, and typical for a middle grade novel, I really liked the setting and how the reader can really get a good insight into how Delsie feels, I also thought that the themes were current and relatable.
I recommend this book to middle grade readers who enjoy a somewhat complex story, but want an original middle grade plot line, It's not what you look at that counts, but what you see,

It is summertime on the Cape and Delsie's friend Aimee has been cast as Annie in the summer musical, For Delsie, that show is another reminder that she has had "a hard knock life, " She lives with her Grammy, but her beloved Papa her grandfather is no longer alive, Her mother is AWOL and she has never even known who her dad is, Add in some friend problems, a persnickety neighbor named Olive, and a strange new boy who just seems angry and life is complicated, Why can't relationships be like the weather Something that can be somewhat predicted What Delsie learns during this important summer is something her Papa once told her if we all put our problems on the table, we would be likely to take all of our own back again.
Delsie learns to live with gratitude and in a way that helps others respond in positive ways, There is a kitten named Boots, whale watching, clam raking, and more, Lynda Mullaly Hunt also hid some anagrams in the text for puzzle lovers, One is related to the title SHOUTING AT THE RAIN THAT NOURISHING TEA, This one really grew on me like a barnacle, Highly recommended! A few years ago a friend gave me a mug that said, . .

"I don't want to just read books, I want to climb inside them and live there, "

If I could climb inside this book and live there with the characters, I would, Living in an area with some pretty violent storms isn't exactly high on my list, but to be part of that group of friends and neighbors that all live in those four houses at the end of that dirt road, who love each other truly and fiercely, who are always there for each other no matter what, that have a bond that can never be broken, those people who are more family than blood relations, yeah, I would gladly live with all those Nor 'easters to be a part of that family.


I didn't know that it was possible for Lynda Mullaly Hunt to write a book more special and heartwarming than sitelinkFish in a Tree, but she certainly has done it with this one.
It's one of my absolute favorite middle grade books of, Shouting at the Rain

Delsie is different on so many levels, And shes growing. And her friends are changing, And making fun of her,

From the very beginning as I read this book as a grandmother, I judged, Not Delsie, but her mother, To a certain extent her caretaking grandmother, too, My hackles were up and I was outraged,

Motherless Delsie deserved more. I was set up because by the end of the book while things were not wandresolved, Delsie and her friend Ronan who had troubles of his own were helped by the grownups in their lives to face the challenging aspects of their lives.
I sat in a corner considering all this, . . we all have issues. Not all are resolved prettily, with the wrinkles smoothed out, I appreciated the tools of resiliency that were given to these growing, awkward people, and me by association as a reader, . . still a growing, awkward person forever one, I suspect,

I wish this book had been around when I was twelve, awkward and doing all the wrong things according to my friends from just a year before.
BFFs were more like BFFAWOT Best Friends For A Week Or Two the older I got, There would have been less pouting, manipulation and drama in the kingdom if Id had this book, Its a toolkit for understanding that love comes in all shapes and sizes, all kinds of family members and friends have it, Love is present and sticks around, but sometimes it leaves, too but that doesnt erase it, just creates distance and thats ok, Keeping an eye out for what fills the gaps is the juice of this tale, Every coin has its other side every tale has its beginning and end and so often they overlap, Abandonment provides an opportunity for rescue and service loyalty is valued and recognized most when one has been betrayed, Doesn't make it better, just presents a different aspect of overcoming challenges,

A lovely book, I also recommend a Fish in a Tree by the same author, Both are books written for ages, .