β Scribed by Jane Smiley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares βJewelβ and all the geldings βGeorgeβ and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is goneβfor good, it seemsβand now Daddy wonβt speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But thereβs one gelding on her familyβs farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who wonβt meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.
From the Hardcover edition.
Library : General
Universes : Horses of Oak Valley Ranch [01]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780375894145
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