After the Rain
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After the Rain
by Authors:
Norma Fox Mazer
Released: 02 November, 1987
ISBN: 0380750252
Paperback
Sales Rank: 117,520
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Customer Review #1:
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After The Rain was written by Norma Fox Mazer. Izzy, Manny, her "Daddy", Shirley, her "Ma" Helena, her best friend, and Lewis are a few of the characters with whom the main character, Rachel, has relations. The entire book takes place in a rural countryside on the eastern coast of the United States. Rachels grandfather, Izzy, was dying. He had contracted a terminal disease called mesothelioma. This disease usually attacks the lining of the lung and does not have a cure. Unfortunately, Izzy has the disease both on the lining of and in his lungs. Rachel, after grasping the fact that her grandfather was dying, spent more time with him before his death. She walked with Izzy almost everyday and took care of him as best she could. As Rachel got to know him, she grew to love him immeasurably. When Izzy finally became so weak he has to go to the hospital, Rachel skips school for many weeks to be with him.
I would recommend this book to another student. In fact I think that I would recommend this touching novel to anyone that could read! Norma Fox Mazer has adroitly woven the problems of a young teenage, about my age, into this novel. She created a story that seems so real, but is totally fiction. The events after Izzy died were described so vividly that tears came to my eyes, even though the vocabulary words used to illustrate the scene were only at a fifth to sixth graders level. Because the story touched me so, I rated After The Rain five stars.
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Customer Review #2:
GrEaT bOoK
i loved this book, its like soo...um...good! haha anywayz Rachel goes through the stress of her Grandfather nearly dying i recommend this book to anyone
and i read this book in school so i thought it would be bad but it was like sooo good!
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Customer Review #3:
Sierra from Richview Middle School
The story starts with rachel a 15 year old girl.She enjoys writing and learning about literature.Her mother and father are described as a moose and a baby blue whale.She also has two older brothers that live and work away from home.Now rachel lives the normal hectic life of a teenager,with low self-esteem and feels unimportant to the world.Then her family is bestowed with the horrifying fact that her grandfather is diagnosed with a cancer diease.Although her grandfather is not the easiest man to love she becomes his reluctant companion.The after school visits to the hospital begin as a chore but soon her grandfather becomes the most important thing in her life.Even more important than her friendship with Helena and her new relationship with Lewis Olswager.Even after all the love and care rachel provides her grandfather passes away.but the memory of him will always live on in her heart forever!This was a hearwarming tell that tought me to treat me what I have right now important because I might not have it later!
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