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Cargando... A Horse of Her Ownpor Selma Hudnut
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sweet YA of a horse-mad girl - it makes more sense than most of the ilk, since she's been raised on the racecourse. But now she's a recent orphan and lacking contact with horses, until she reaches out to make it happen. Not quite sure what's going on with Cindy - possibly Cindy is not quite sure what's going on with Cindy, either. And a nice picture of a California hunt and the people that make it up; the characterizations are sketchy but nicely varied. A bad stablemaster going worse, and Rosemary caught up in the mess. The horse of the title is also extremely sketchy - very sick throughout the time she knows him, so she never really gets to deal with him as a horse and not a patient. Happy ending, of course, but not the magic everything-comes-right sort of ending either; the problems are solved somewhat out of Rosemary's view, but within the reader's understanding. It's a bit of fluff, but it's a really _good_ bit of fluff - what all those teen-girls-and-horses books aspire to be. It even has good, solid information on riding and care of the horse (including quite a bit of jargon, only some of it explained). I enjoyed it. Unfortunately my copy is truly damaged - the last page was glued to the back cover, and is completely unreadable. So I got rid of it. I'll be keeping an eye out for more by this author, though. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series editorialesVintage Scholastic (TX657)
After her parents' sudden death, loneliness makes Rosemary O'Connor seek out a neighboring farm where horses are being exercised. Here she feels closer to her father, who taught her all she knew about riding and horses. Soon the owner of the farm warmly welcomes Rosemary and introduces her to other young people in a local hunt club. This leads to a summer job at the hunt stables where Rosemary finds her horse, the kind of Irish hunter she has always longed for. Of course, Dublin Jack does belong to Mr. Medford, the wealthy, stable owner, and he is almost dead when Rosemary finds him. Can she -- should she -- help him to live in spite of the stable manager's ugly threats? Although Rosemary's main concern is for Dublin Jack, she works hard at her job, which includes teaching children to ride, cleaning tack, feeding and exercising other horses, and learning to control the hounds. One night, when she is more tired than usual, disaster strikes. Rosemary wakes up in the hospital, and here she learns of new plans for the stable, for herself, and for Dublin Jack. The color and excitement of horse shows, hunting, and riding with hounds in California (where no killing of a fox is involved) pervade this story of a plucky girl who believes in not letting go of her horse once she's found him. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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