A good horse /

Smiley, Jane.

A good horse / Jane Smiley ; with illustrations by Elaine Clayton. - 1st Yearling ed. - New York : Yearling, 2011, c2010. - 246 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"A Yearling book."

Wilson's Children, September 2011 Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 Publisher's Weekly, September 2010 Kirkus Starred, September 2010 Booklist, October 2010 Horn Book, November 2010

On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.

5.3. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



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Horses--Training--Fiction.
Ranch life--California--Fiction.
Family life--California--Fiction.
Christian life--Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


California--History--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.S6413 / Goo 2011

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