Customer Reviews

The Rain Catchers

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This was a great book, about a girl who lives with her grandmother, aunts, and her great aunts. At her grandmother's house tea is served promptly at four o'clock, along with storytime. Everybody has a story at grandmother's house, with a begining, middle, and an end: except Grayling her story doesn't have an end, that she (or any one else for that matter) knows of. Grayling's story is lived as you read this book. This book has everything: family, friendship, and love. This was a great book that all of my friends and I have loved for years, and we all recomend it to you.

I'm not much of a book reader, but this book was a real page turner me. It reminded me of the times i spent with my grandmother down in Missouri visiting family & listening to stories from their past and from mine as well. This story touched me, and I cant wait for my little sister to read it as well. I recomend this book to everyone, especially those who are not much of readers like myself. It is so good it could be a movie.

The Rain Catchers

By: Jean Thiesman

Grayling a 14 year old girl, who lives with her grandmother, in Seattle. Grays mom lives in California. Through out the summer gray has to go visit her mom. When she's there she has to make an extremely difficult decision. Whether she wants to move to California to be with her mom. Or stay in Seattle with her grandmother and the life she loves. But before she goes she has to know one thing. Why her mom left her 13 years ago to stay with her grandmother. Will gray find out? Will she stay with her mom? Read and find out.

I would recommend this book for 7-9 graders. There are some slow parts in the book but there are parts that keep you reading to find out what happened next.

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I like my book The Rain Catchers because it is so realistic,and it deals with problems that you could face in your everyday life.The author of my book is Jean Thesman.She wrote the book about a fifteen-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother at a young age,and she has live with her grandmother.She loves to live with her grandmother,though and has to strive to get through hard times,but she knows she can alredy make it through herself.

The Rain Catchers is well-written. It's about a girl named Grayling who lives with her grandmother and her grandmother's friends. Grayling always hears her guardians telling stories, but not once has she heard her own story from the beginning. She encounters many trials including love, death, illness, and divorce. This book is about what happens to her; it's not an adventure book or a mystery or action story.
Now I will admit that the reason I didn't like this book is because I am the type of person that enjoys action and adventure books. That is why I gave it three stars. I just thought the plot was kind of boring. If you DO like non-action books, books about normal people,ect., READ THIS. If you're like me, don't read it. Ages 9-15.

This is one book you will want to add to your collection of good books. This book is one of those few that sucks you into the story, and makes you read it to the end, wishing for more. You actually begin to love, hate, and cherish the characters as the plot unfolds. I recomend this book to anyone, and everyone who needs a book to just pick up and read; not a regular run-of-the-mill storyline.

This unique story was mixed with humor, surprise, hurt, heartwarming situations. I couldn't wait to finish it. It was very enjoyable and stirred your thoughts.

The rain catcher written by Jean Thesman was an okay book. But I wouldn't recommend it. Part of the book was okay, the other part just confused me the whole time! It had weird parts that you wouldn't catch very quickly. It didn't even have a main plot. It was confusing from the first page.

At the beginning you meet this girl named Grayling (aka gray), and her best friend Colleen. They are talking about how much Colleen hates her father. Then it suddenly goes to how she lives with her grandmother. Then all these people come in to the picture and you don't know how they know Gray or why she is living with them. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It is horrible and it is hard to catch on.

Then the part that does make sense. How she is going out on dates with this guy named Aaron. Even though he comes to the house and works on it, we have no idea where he lives his last name or anything! It is sweet but we want to know more then just his name.

Then out of nowhere Gray get send a plane ticket to California and we find out that Gray's mom lives down in California and left her because he father died. Her mother could have sword she saw the man who killed him and she panics! Grays mothers tells us nothing more about it.

So if you were looking at this book thinking about reading it. I would tell you don't! I thought it was horrible and I would loved to be proven wrong even by a complete stranger, but I don't think it is going to happen because I think it is a very stupid book and I think that know one should read it! Read it if you like but I suggest you don't.