After the Rain

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!

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. Rachel's 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 grader's level. Because the story touched me so, I rated After The Rain five stars.

I really loved this book. I started reading it one morning and finished it that night. I just couldn't put it down. Racheal was struggling with issues that teens deal with everyday. It takes ur grandfather, a man she dis-liked because of his harsh ways, to make her wake up. Just a simple walk everyday helped her reach inside the only skin deep harshness of the man. Her grandfather has a set time to live and Racheal helps him live each day to the fullest! I recommend this book to anyone who likes a touching story!

"After the Rain", was one of the first books I read by Ms. Norma Fox Wilder. Her story about Rachel coming into terms with her new life and dying grandfather was portrayed with much enthusiasm. I had a wonderful time reading, "After the Rain", and I believe you will too!!

This book really touched my heart. I highly reccommend this book to others. Trying to understand grandparent/parents etc ain't easy. And Mazer certainly brought out a very real and true-to-heart account. She made me understand that even if your loved ones are dead, the memories they left you would always be there... no matter what...