about the book
Rose Howard loves that her name has a homonym: Rows. She is also especially excited that she got to name her beloved dog, Rain, giving her pet a two-homonym (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms is very significant.
No one understands Rose, unfortunately. She is a high-functioning autistic fifth-grader. She is obsessed with homophones, following rules to the letter, and has a tough time decoding social cues. Due to all this, Rose is having a tough time at school, and bad grades are making her single father a little impatient with her.
One night a storm hits Rose’s rural town. Rivers outside overflow, roads flood, and Rose’s father unthinkingly lets Rain out of the house. And now Rain is missing. This event was never in Rose’s plans. What is she to do? Can she break out of her normal routine to go out and save her dog?
about the author
You could say that Ann M. Martin has had a stormy life! Born in Princeton, New Jersey, as Hurricane Connie hit, her father wanted to name her Connie Gale after the storm! Another hurricane hit on her first day of school. After she grew up, a hurricane dumped so much rain on her town that flooded houses were lifted right off their foundation.
Her father is famed cartoonist Henry Martin, and her mother’s ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Ann had a great childhood in a creative house. She filled her bedroom full of books and organized a library, complete with date due cards and late fines, for kids on her street to check out. She started writing by dictating stories to her mother.
Ann graduated from Smith College with double majors in education and psychology. She became a teacher and then an editor for children’s books. When her series the Babysitters Club, Main Street, and Doll People became successful, she started writing full time. Ann won a Newbery Honor for her book A Corner of the Universe.
Ann now lives in the rural Hudson Valley in upstate New York with her stray dog Sadie, a beagle/golden retriever mix, and her rescued kitties, Gussie, Pippen, and Woody. Ann founded the Ann M. Martin Foundation that benefits children, literacy programs, and animal rescue groups.
Sources:
Author’s website: Scholastic
Meet the author video: Goodreads
Also by Ann M. Martin:
Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure. Feiwel and Friends. September 2016.
The Doll People series. Hyperion Press. 2000-2016.
Home Is the Place (Family Tree, Book 4). Scholastic. 2015.
The Baby-sitters Club series. Scholastic. 1986-2015.
Best Kept Secret (Family Tree, Book 3). Scholastic. 2014.
The Long Way Home (Family Tree, Book 2). Scholastic. 2013.
Better to Wish (Family Tree, Book 1). Scholastic. 2013.
Ten Good and Bad Things about My Life (So Far). Feiwel and Friends. 2012.
Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories. Henry Holt. 2012.
The Main Street series. Scholastic. 2007-2011.
Ten Rules for Living with My Sister. Feiwel and Friends. 2011.
Everything for a Dog. Feiwel and Friends. 2009.
A Dog’s Life : The Autobiography of a Stray. Scholastic. 2005.
Here Today. Scholastic. 2004.
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