Virginia's Civil War Diaries: Book Two: After the Rain

by Mary Pope Osborne and Will Osborne

Book Overview

Part of the My America relaunch, in Ms. Osborne's sequel to My Brother's Keeper, Ginny moves to Washington, D.C. where she must face changing times, marked by the assassination of President Lincoln.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439369045
• ISBN13: 9780439369046
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

7th grade reading, it was good

This book is about a girl named Virginia and her family that is barely surviving in the center of the civil war. In this story Virginia writes in her diary every night before he goes to sleep, that her brother gave her, before he left for the war. Their family is poor so Virginia is very independent. To find out more you should read this story if you like war stories. (It is very descriptive)

Shows us what is really important in life.

Virginia's story continues from Book 1 as her family moves from Gettysburg to Washington, D.C. In the final years of the Civil War, Washington, D.C. was an unattractive city full of mud-filled streets, grungy buildings and many homeless soldiers who have deserted the battlefront. Her brother had asked the family to move north so he could take a job as a reporter, but Jed ends up in a low paying job instead. The family faces some tough times that first winter, and Virginia is worried how they will survive. When she takes a job as a housekeeper for a wealthy family, Virginia learns even more hard lessons about what it means to be poor.The story of Virginia takes readers back to the days when our nation was trying to heal the wounds of war, and deal with the pain of President Abraham Lincoln's death. It was a time of struggle and hardship, hope and rebuilding, and helps to show us what is really important in life.

After The Rain

Hi,I am doing a book review on After The Rain.The author of After The Rain is Mary Pope Osborne.There are 98 pages if you want to know.The genre of my book is realistic fiction. The setting of this book is the Civil War around the 1800's.This book is about this young girl who has envy(which means jealousy)See what all of this means by After The rain. The 3 reasons I like this book are because it is exciting and it is about a Virgina's Civil War diary.2 The girl's father plays at Fords New Theatre.3 There lives turn around when she changes her live.I all like these reasons because this book has many changes And excitement.I would only recommend this book to people who like historical fiction and My America books.If you want to read this book go to your library or your local library.Go and read After The Rain.See you later !!!! bye!!!!

Another nice My America

Ten-year-old Virginia Dickens, her father, brother Jed, and Jed's wife Jane Ellen, have left Gettysburg to move to Washington, D.C. There they hope to start a new more prosperous life. Jed hopes to find a nice job but ends up with a low-paying job that he hates. After Ginny's dad gets injured during work the family finds themselves no even being able to send Ginny to school because they need her to work too to make ends meet. So Ginny finds herself having to work as a house servant in a wealthy family. To the Dickens winter seems very bleak and long. The only bright spot is the baby Jed and Jane Ellen are expecting. Finally when the war finally comes to an end and thing seem to be getting better Ginny must face the awful news that her hero President Abraham Lincoln had been assasinated. Ginny learns that life is constantly changing and you have to take both the sweet and the bitter.

An excellent new My America book continuing Virginia's story

Ten-year-old Virginia Dickens, along with her father, older brother Jed, and Jed's wife Jane Ellen, have left Gettysburg to move to Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1864. Jed hopes to become a newspaper reporter, but instead finds himself in a dull, low-paying job setting type. The family finds themselves living a tiny house, unable to even afford to send Ginny to school. The Civil War is finally coming to an end, but the winter is still a long and bleak one. Ginny's father is badly injured and is unable to work, and Ginny herself must take a job as a servant in a wealthy home to help make ends meet. But there is a bright spot, as Ginny looks forward to the birth of Jed and Jane Ellen's new baby. I highly recommend Virginia's second diary to all fans of the My America series. I hope there is a third book about Virginia in the series.