Cloudburst

by Barbara Hall

The summer that Dutch Peyton turns 14, everything goes wrong. She longs for the arrival of Norma, her cousin from the city. But Norma is the kind of girl who could trip on the sidewalk and make you look stupid for standing up. For the first time ever, good-natured Dutch is full of resentment.

217 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 1998

About the author

To TV audiences she may be better known as a four-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer (Joan of Arcadia, Judging Amy) and the co-Executive Producer of Homeland, but to avid readers she’s a novelist with 11 published works whose imagination has been honored by numerous institutions, including the American Library Association in both their Best Books and Notable Books categories.