Smiley, Jane.

The Georges and the Jewels / Jane Smiley ; with illustrations by Elaine Clayton. - 1st Yearling ed. - New York : Yearling, c2009. - 232 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010 Pub Weekly, July 2009 Booklist, September 2009 Horn Book, November 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2009 Kirkus Review, August 2009

Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

5.2. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



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Horses--Training--Fiction.
Ranch life--California--Fiction.
Family life--California--Fiction.
Christian life--Fiction.
Christian fiction.


California--History--Fiction.


Christian fiction.

PZ7.S6413 / Ge 2009

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