The Week Of The Horse.The Week Of The Horse Jocelyn
Raincoast Books 9050 Shaughnessy Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6P 6E5 1551926555 $8.95 raincoast.com The Week Of The Horse by author Jocelyn Reekie is a young adult novel, telling the story of a twelve-year-old girld who loves horses yet cannot afford one. So she volunteers at a local stable, where she can ride her favorite horse... until the stable closes down and her beloved Duke is sent away, to be sold at auction to a butcher. She has less than a week to save Duke, with help from her grandmother. A tender and compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: novel, captivating cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. and sure to strike a chord chord, in geometry chord (kôrd), in geometry, straight line segment both end points of which lie on the circumference of a circle or other curve; it is a segment of a secant. A chord passing through the center of a circle is a diameter. in young animal lovers, The Week Of The Horse is especially recommended for both school and community library fiction collections for young readers. |
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