After the Storm Author:Judith Richards Critics compared Judith Richards' novel Summer Lightning, the story of a big-hearted little boy and his relationship with an eccentric old nauturalist, to Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird. Now the hero of that best-selling book is back. Redheaded, freckle-faced Terry Calder has returned to the Everglades, where he ... more »lives in a migratory workers camp with his mother and younger sister. Terry's idealistic father is in the thick of World War II, "investigating atrocities in Poland," and Terry has become "the man of the family."- He also becomes the legs for a paraplegic veteran named Deke, the conscience for a confused, half-Indian boy named Ossie, and sometimes the mind for a gentle friend who accidentally brings tragedy to them all. This is a novel about friendship, loneliness, and loves that come during war,-about a young boy's respect for nature, and about a family being tested in every way and emerging, at last, all the stronger.« less