Books with title The Day it Rained

A creative and sweet story, perfect for Valentine's Day, that helps open the hearts of young readers. From the beloved illustrator of If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie.One day it rains hearts, and Cornelia Augusta catches them. She realizes that the hearts are perfect for making valentines. Each heart is special in its own way, and Cornelia Augusta knows exactly who to send them to: her animal friends.A fun way to spark creativity and thoughtfulness! The perfect book to pair with Valentine's Day crafts.

Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michi- gan, on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunt- ing opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It's the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for extremely high winds and rain, absolutely perfect weather for duck hunting it doesn't get any better than this! Excitement mounts as Blair, her dad, and their faithful chocolate lab, Mac, head in their johnboat toward Edmond Island, four miles offshore. But things start to spiral out of control quickly as two massive storms collide, creating an historic storm directly overhead. Storms like this are dangerous, and this one turns out to be much worse than Blair or her dad could ever have imagined. The storm takes control of the lake, hammering them with huge waves, and changes what was to be an exciting duck hunt into a desperate struggle for survival. Amidst all the chaos, however, the storm has a special gift for Blair. But will she survive long enough to get it?

Jimmy Anderson: brightest guy in his class, complete idiot around girls. Now he’s hearing voices in his head. Is this it? Has he finally lost it completely, his dysfunctional love-life driven him loopy? Or has a future version of himself really managed to communicate through time – a lot of time? And how did his future self get to live so long? And what can he do with his future self’s knowledge of his own future? Not fix his girlfriend problems, that’s for sure.So how about instead tackling more solvable problems like climate change, clean energy and defeating ageing? With occasional advice from his future self but a lot more from his here and now friends, he may be in with a chance ...

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains – and are visited by a strange musician. A family of colonists on Mars are homesick for Earth. Terrified, they begin to notice that each is undergoing a subtle transformation. A man seeks the forgotten scent of sarsaparilla in his attic – and passes through a window into the lost land of his boyhood. The Day It Rained Forever includes many of Ray Bradbury's most celebrated stories.

Elizabeth Stein, seventeen, is an uneasy survivor. Back from a year of madness, she finds that everyone she knows is falling apart and the questions she asks seem to have no answers. But the past--including the year it rained--must be untangled.Her father, a well-known Hollywood biographer, is sliding toward alcoholism. Her mother, the one "everyone wants," is trapped by a lifetime of self-denial. Then, there are Elizabeth's two boyfriends: Hal, the older history teacher, and Jonathan, her own age, whose electrifying lovemaking excites and terrifies her. Her lost friend, Tabby, can't help her now; neither can the stream of therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists whose terrible mistakes and superficial solutions only make things worse. Thoughtful, keenly self-observant, feisty, and self-mocking, she's determined not to be a victim.In powerfully moving prose that will inevitably be compared to The Bell Jar and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Crescent Dragonwagon has written a rich and sensual novel about one young woman's awakening as an adult and as an artist. Elizabeth's story is about loss and recovery, fear and hope, and the courage to pursue self-understanding.From Natalie Babbitt's review in The New York Times:"Miss Dragonwagon's writing is strong, adult, holds nothing back. Her book is shapely and satisfying and, though she may not have intended it, deeply touching. It has the authenticity of first-hand observation, and may be to some extent autobiographical. But all novels are to a degree autobiographical. Finally, when a novel is as fine as this one, that element and all the temptation to speculation which it invites, simply cease to have any importance. 'The Year It Rained' is a beautiful and significant book about love; read it and pass it along."