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Informationen zum Autor Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, Missouri. In 1992 she won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres , for which she also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her other novels include Moo (1995), Horse Heaven (2000), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Good Faith (2003) and Ten Days in the Hills (2007). Her most recent novel is Private Life (2010). In 2006 Jane Smiley was awarded the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Klappentext Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Abby finds new friends, but also new challenges, and a larger world that sometimes seems strange and intimidating. Series mention in Ask Lorna - best Pony stories -- Lorna Bradbury http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/9826805/Ask-Lorna-the-best-childrens-pony-fiction.html Champion Horse , the latest in Jane Smiley's popular horse novels, sees Abby Lovitt starting high school, and rising to the challenge of riding an expensive, prize-winning horse. Zusammenfassung Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Abby finds new friends, but also new challenges, and a larger world that sometimes seems strange and intimidating.
