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Brimner, Larry Dane

The Rain Wizard: The Amazing, Mysterious, True Life of Charles Mallory Hatfield

120 pp. | Boyds/Calkins | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-990-2 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-62979-435-8
(2) 4-6 Charles Mallory Hatfield claimed he could coax rain from the sky; in 1915, he promised to fill San Diego's Morena Reservoir. Brimner's well-paced account provides history of pluviculture and the people (mostly shysters) who practiced it. Hatfield considered himself a real scientist, though, and readers are tantalizingly left to contemplate whether he was mostly effective or mostly lucky. Excellent archival photographs appear throughout. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2015

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