title: Rain (Weather Ready-to-Reads)
author:  Marion Dane Bauer 
description: Marion Dane Bauer is the author of many books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor book<i>On My Honor</i>and the<i>New York Times</i>bestseller<i>My Mother Is Mine</i>. Her other titles include<i>A Mama for Owen</i>,<i>If You Were Born a Kitten</i>,<i>Grandmothers Song</i>, and<i>Thank You for Me!</i>She has retired from the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults where she was the first Faculty Chair. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and can be reached at MarionDaneBauer.com.
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  RAINY SEASON
  
  
  Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was half past five in the afternoon by the time John and Elise Graham
  finally found their way into the little village that lay at the center of
  Willow, Maine, like a fleck of grit at the center of some dubious pearl. The
  village was less than five miles from the Hempstead Place, but they took two
  wrong turns on the way. When they finally arrived on Main Street, both of them
  were hot and out of sorts. The Ford’s air-conditioner had dropped dead on the
  trip from St. Louis, and it felt about a hundred and ten outside. Of course it
  wasn’t anything at all like that, John Graham thought. As the old-timers said,
  it wasn’t the heat, it was the humidity. He felt that today it would be almost
  possible to reach out and wring warm dribbles of water from the air itself.
  The sky overhead was a clear and open blue, but that high humidity made it
  feel as if it were going to rain any minute. Fuck that—it felt as if it were
  raining already.
  
  
  “The