Secret Horse

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley follows her debut for young readers, "Nobody's Horse", with this stirring novel about a girl and her love of horses. In Secret Horse , Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley follows her debut for young readers in this stirring novel about a girl and her love of horses. Zusammenfassung When eighth-grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there's no place she'd rather be than her family's ranch-even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. When he and Abby clear four feet easy as pie, heads start to turn at the ring-buyers' heads-and Abby knows Daddy won't turn down a good offer.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Smiley, Smiley Jane
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780571274475
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27447-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Faber Children's Books
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Interest age: from c 9 years, JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / General, Reading Age: From C 9 Years