Seventeen-year-old Jane had found the horse of her dreamsβor so she thought. Windsong had the breeding, training, and the flashy good looks to win medals at national competitions, but conservative, shy Jane wasn't sure she was up to the challenge of riding the temperamental beast. He may have been a
And Condors Danced
β Scribed by Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
- Book ID
- 107606089
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-us
- Weight
- 601 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480471474
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β¦ Synopsis
A moving coming-of-age story from three-time Newbery Medal winner Zilpha Keatley SnyderThe tenth day of June in the year of Our Lord, 1907. Mehitabel Carlton Hartwick becomes invisible . . .Eleven-year-old Carly Hartwick lives a life of adventure on her family's ranch in Santa Luisa. No one has a clue about her secret life--not her strict father, her ailing, distracted mother, her older sister, or her older brother. Carly shares her adventures with her faithful dog, Tiger, and documents their exploits in her journal. She loves visiting her aunt Mehitabel and hearing the story of her Chinese servant's danger-filled immigration to California during the gold rush. And soon she and Tiger have a real-life mystery to solve: Who bombed a float during the annual Fourth of July parade?This fateful summer and fall, two tragedies will test Carly's courage and forever alter her views on life and death.Culled from Snyder's mother's memories of growing up in this slice of rural Southern...
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