A good horse

On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.

Main Author: Smiley, Jane.
Other Authors: Clayton, Elaine (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Horses of Oak Valley Ranch ; bk. 2
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Summary: On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
Physical Description: 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780375862298 (hard cover)
0375862293 (hard cover)
9780375962288 (library binding)
037596228X (library binding)
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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