True Blue
Book Three of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch
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فرمت کتاب
ebook
تاریخ انتشار
2011
Lexile Score
950
Reading Level
3-6
ATOS
5.1
Interest Level
4-8(MG)
نویسنده
Jane Smileyشابک
9780375894169
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
lovemuggles - I loved True Blue. It was an amazing story. You know the saying, "Never judge a book by it's cover"? Well it's true because despite how the book looks it's actually a mystery. I definitely recommend this book to all people of all ages.
Starred review from July 15, 2011
Smiley continues the story of Abby Lovitt and the horses on her family's California ranch in the 1960s.
When family friend and fellow stable-owner Jane sells Abby a horse for the change in her pocket, Abby is thrilled. True Blue, a gorgeous and personable gray, seems full of potential. But he comes with literal baggage—trunks of saddles and bridles and, most spookily, his dead former owner's boots. Abby shoves them out of sight, but she can't ignore Blue's own spookiness—he leaps and shies away from things no one else can see. Soon Abby is convinced that she, too, sees a ghost woman riding him. Meanwhile, Abby breaks her wrist, and an incident at her church brings her father's relationship with her estranged brother to a head. Abby has already learned how quickly things can go wrong—but now she learns that, sometimes, everything can also be put right. Readers who have been with this story from the beginning will enjoy watching narrator Abby continue to grow; newcomers will want to go back and start at the beginning with The Georges and the Jewels (2009).
Smiley's pristine, graceful prose and thoroughly real characters make this a novel to savor. (Historical fiction. 10 & up)(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
August 1, 2011
Gr 6-8- True Blue continues the story of Abby Lovitt and her conservative Christian family. Abby lives on a horse ranch in Northern California during the 1960s. She and her father go to see a beautiful dappled gray horse whose owner recently died in a traffic accident. Abby is enchanted and she pays $5.60 for him on the spot. True Blue is a nervous animal, and the girl soon wonders if his deceased owner might still be visiting him as a ghost. As she struggles with the idea of this ghost, she goes on a cattle drive, breaks her arm, and gives riding lessons. She also puzzles over her father's relationships with both her brother and with their church. This novel will appeal most to readers interested in horses as the author is generous with passages containing detailed descriptions of training, grooming, and riding. Those looking for lots of action or humor will be disappointed.-Mindy Whipple, West Jordan Library, UT
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