Fall in love with Rose’s story as she navigates the challenging world around her. Her love of homonyms and prime numbers and her dog are contagious. Her love of rules is a precursor to loving math. – Johanna Cinquegrana, Mathical Selection Committee
Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose’s obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different—not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father. When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, the roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing. Rose’s father shouldn’t have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places to search.
– Book description from publisher
Other Resources
- TeachingBooks.net book page
- Author website
- Discussion Questions (PDF, from publisher)
- Teacher’s Guide (PDF, from publisher)