The Georges and the Jewels

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.

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Main Author: Smiley, Jane
Other Authors: Clayton, Elaine (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Horses of Oak Valley Ranch ; bk. 1
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:9780375962271 (reinforced)
0375962271 (reinforced)
9780375862274 (hard cover) :
0375862277 (hard cover) :
Author Notes:Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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