{"id":45152,"date":"2025-11-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/?p=45152"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:40:27","slug":"where-only-storms-grow-by-alyssa-colman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/where-only-storms-grow-by-alyssa-colman\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Only Storms Grow by Alyssa Colman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Where Only Storms Grow <em>brings the \u201cDust Bowl\u201d of the 1930s vividly to life, as a family struggles to hold on to hope.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45153 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/800;width:300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Where-Only-Storms-Grow-2-96x96.jpg 96w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-only-storms-grow-by-alyssa-colman-farrar-straus-giroux-2025-237-pages\"><em>Where Only Storms Grow<\/em> by Alyssa Colman. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025. 237 pages.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reading Level<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/category\/book-reviews\/middle-grades\/\"><strong>Middle Grades<\/strong><\/a>, ages 10-12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Recommended For<\/strong>: ages 8-15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything started going wrong the afternoon that the bird hit the kitchen window.\u201d Joanna\u2019s mother is for letting the cats have the stunned and immobile creature, since food is scarce for everybody. Her twin brother Howard (Howe) shrugs off her concern and her big brother Lou is too busy, as always. Her sympathetic father helps Joanna find a box to keep the bluebird safe and watches with her to make sure its leg isn\u2019t broken. Within a few days the bluebird flies to the barn rafters and finds a perch while chirping its happy song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHope is a thing with feathers,\u201d as the Emily Dickinson poem goes. Joanna has needed hope as the curvature of her spine grows more pronounced \u2013 scoliosis, the doctor calls it. But lately, her whole family desperately needs hope in the relentless dust storms that pound the Oklahoma panhandle. Then the bank forecloses on Uncle Hank\u2019s neighboring farm, and Daddy decides he must go to California with his brother\u2019s family to find work to pay his own mortgage. That leaves Lou, Howe, and Mama to run the place, since Mama won\u2019t allow Joanna to do any heavy work. Howe resents being taken away from school and his ambitions to write. Lou resents the responsibility weighing heavily on him. Joanna resents her mother\u2019s coddling because it tells her she isn&#8217;t good for much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone resents the dirt piling up in snowlike drifts after every storm, sifting down from the ceiling, settling on furniture and linens, corroding the lungs of humans and livestock. Resentment contributes to the accident that takes Lou out of commission and makes losing the farm seem more likely than ever. What now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where Only Storms Grow<\/em> makes the reader almost feel the grittiness of a daily war against dirt. Chapters alternate Joanna\u2019s voice with Howe\u2019s as the two gradually learn to rely on each other and the family. The situation will get very grim before it gets better, but it does get better as each twin finds a sense of self-worth and belonging in the cauldron of adversity. Though the family goes to church, there is little mention of prayer or relying on God. Also, the vocabulary and occasional anachronism of the first-person voices make Joanna and Howe sound more contemporary than the average rural Okie. But their story will make readers care about them and feel a sense of satisfaction by the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bottom Line:<\/strong> An absorbing tale of hardship and triumph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-related-reading-from-redeemed-reader\">Related Reading From Redeemed Reader <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reviews:<\/strong> &nbsp;For striking photographs of the Dust Bowl see our review of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/picturing-a-nation-by-martin-w-sandler\/\">Picturing a Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. For an overall view of the Great Depression and the political response to it, teens should read the graphic novel version of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/the-forgotten-man-by-amity-shlaes\/\">The Forgotten Man<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (starred review).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reviews<\/strong>: Young siblings orphaned by the dust storms search for <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/someplace-to-call-home-by-sandra-dallas\/\">Someplace to Call Home<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. 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