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By Jane Smiley

ISBN-10: 0375894144

ISBN-13: 9780375894145

A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for younger readers.

Abby Lovitt has been using horses for so long as she will be able to be mindful, yet Daddy hasn't allow her identify a unmarried one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her to not get connected. The horses are there at the ranch to be offered, undeniable and simple.

But with the entire tension in class (the immense Four—Linda, Mary A., Mary N., Joan—have became opposed to her) and residential (nothing feels correct along with her brother, Danny, gone), Abby can not help yet search convenience within the Georges and the Jewels, who greet her on a daily basis with delicate nickers. aside from one: the pony who will not meet her gaze, the pony who dollars her off, the pony Daddy insists she trip and educate. Abby is aware to not pass her father, yet she is aware, too, that she cannot come back on Ornery George. And unexpectedly the horses appear like no shelter at all.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley comes an emotionally charged and action-filled novel for younger readers, set within the shiny panorama of Sixties California horse nation.

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Smart boy,” said Mom. “Oh, how lovely,” said Mrs. Harris. “I think that’s enough for one day,” said Mom. “I love him,” said Gloria. ” “I have every confidence that you are up to it,” said Mrs. Harris. Mom smiled. We went inside for tea, and Gloria and her mom stayed almost until supper. Gloria had a Seventeen magazine with her, and we went into my room and sat on the bed and leafed through it. She pointed at a couple of the models and said, “Did I tell you my cousin Emily saw them in Florida at Christmastime?

We had a mare once—” But then she decided not to tell me that story, and so I knew it was a bad one. ” “A foal is a lot of work. And a colt is more work. ” I rode the pony George first. Daddy said that there usually wasn’t much market for a pony, but when someone needed one, then a pony was exactly what they needed and the only thing. Our pony was medium-sized—he came up about to my chin (all the horses were taller than I was by at least an inch or two). Once the spring rolled around, Daddy thought he could sell that pony to some people who had an English riding school out on the coast.

She touched it with her own, then took another bite of her hay. Behind me, Mom said, “Now, it’s okay to look at them, but you let him and her get to know each other for three or four days before you introduce yourself. ” The foal flopped over and stretched out in the straw. His legs looked incredibly long and thin, loose, like noodles. If I hadn’t seem him jump around on them, I wouldn’t have thought such a thing was possible. After the pony, I rode the other Jewel, then the chestnut George. They were little girl material all the way.

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