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1 Rain ..
2 Lightning Strikes ..
3 Eye of the Storm ..
4 End of the Rainbow ..
Rain already knows how hard life can be. But she is about to discover a shattering secret from the past that will change her future forever.... Growing up in the ghettos of Washington, D.C., the cards are stacking up against a hardworking dreamer like Rain Arnold. Rain has fought to be the best daughter she can: she stuides hard and gets good grades; she helps her mother cook and clean. And unlike her defiant younger sister, she avoids the dangers of the city streets as if her life depends on it…and it does. But Rain can't suppress the feeling that she has never truly fit in, that she is a stranger in her own world.
Setting: northwest and northeast sections of Washinton, D.C. and Virginian countryside, 1990's
© 2000 by the Vanda General Partnership. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover design by Jim Lebbad. Stepback illustration by Lisa Falkenstern. 440 pages.
On stairs -- Grandmother (Frances) Hudson
Do you have an opinion about who's in the picture? Write to me.
"I think the guy in the picture is Brody, not Corbette. Even though Corbette had a somewhat larger part in this book, Brody is a Hudson and probably a more significant character. Also, even though I agree the woman with the lipstick is Megan, I'd like to know if anyone else thinks she looks too young."
"Isn't the one who you have as Corbette, Brody, Megan's son?"
"I have to say, I definitely disagree with you about who is in the stepback art! I agree that it is Grandmother standing on the stairs and that it is Victoria standing behind the woman putting on makeup and that Rain is in the center. It's hard to say who the woman putting makeup on is, if I had to make a choice, it would be Megan, but she looks so young! I know it could not be Alison because she is described with dark hair. But I still think that drawing does not do Megan justice, she looks about 18. The man standing there is definitely a draw between Corbette (p284) and Brody (p375). But I would definitely say it's Brody because it's not like the stepback artist to include people out of the family. But I also realize that Corbette was described as wearing a white shirt when Rain first met him, but I still don't think that's Corbette..."
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Rain
Then one fateful night, Rain overhears something she shouldn't: a heartbreaking revelation from the past, a long-buried secret that is about to change her life in ways she never could have imagined. In the blink of an eye, everything Rain has ever known--the family she has loved and the familiar place she has called home--is left behind, and Rain is sent to live with total strangers, the wealthy Hudson family. but just as she did not belong to the troubled world she was raised in, Rain is also out of place in this realm of luxury and privilege. With nowhere to turn, Rain finds an escape in the theater, inside the walls of an exclusive private school. But will it be enough to fulfill her heart's deepest wish--and give her a place to call home?