The Rain Catchers

By Jean Thesman

1991

First Published

4.05

Average Rating

187

Number of Pages

5H42M

Audio Length

Every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling—whose own story has never been told her to hear. But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story—from the very beginning.

Avg Rating

4.05

Number of Ratings

174

5 STARS

39%

4 STARS

36%

3 STARS

19%

2 STARS

1 STARS

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Author

Jean Thesman

Author · 26 books

"My mother taught me to read before I started school, but I had to wait to be six before I could have a library card."[ Author's quote from her website.] "In 25 years, I wrote 40 books. Most of them came out under my own name, but a few were published under the name T.J. Bradstreet."[ Author's quote from her website.] She lives in Washington State, and is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.[ Houghton Mifflin website] Jean Thesman is a popular and award-winning novelist for young adults whose predominant theme is the heroine finding her place in the world by coming to understand her family. "I loved telling the story, because I really believed that families were made up of the people you wanted, not the people you were stuck with." —Emily Shepherd[Jean Thesman, In the House of the Queen's Beasts (Viking, 2001, p.79).]