Description: THE GEORGES AND THE JEWELSBY JANE SMILEYKNOPF (SEPT., 2009)FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTINGIllustrations by Elaine Clayton Condition: some shelfwear, but very good book with a very good jacket (inch scratch on back). NOT ex-library. A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers. Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares “Jewel†and all the geldings “George†and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone—for good, it seems—and now Daddy won’t speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there’s one gelding on her family’s farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won’t meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George. Commentaries from GOODREADS: This is the kind of horse novel I've been looking for, one that is actually about horses and is not a soap opera set in a barn. The central story here is about a 12-year-old girl who is trying to cope with an uncooperative horse called Ornery George. She is expected to help her father train him so that he can be sold at a profit, but the horse keeps bucking her off. While she's perfectly comfortable with the other horses at her dad's barn, she's scared of Ornery George, and for good reason. This book was so perfectly right for me, that I originally felt I couldn’t judge it objectively. So, first I gave it to my daughter who is just starting to ride. And, then I gave it to my mother who was never bitten by the horse bug. We all absolutely loved it. It is a wonderful book that while just right for a nine year old, has the ability to appeal to children and adults alike. I would recommend it to people of any age and with varying degrees of interest in horses. It is that good. If you love horses, you'll LOVE this book. It's brimming with ideas about training horses. But even if you don't love horses, there is lots to like here. Abby and her parents run a horse farm: her dad buys horses and (re)trains them so that they can be "ridden by a young girl". That's where Abby comes in: if she can't ride a horse, that claim can't be made and money will be lost. Her dad won't let anyone name the horses--the boys are all "George" and the girls are all "Jewel". …. When one horse, "Ornery George", bucks Abby off, she begins to see, for the first time, that maybe her dad is not infallible, and so begin her first steps to some independence. This is also where the fascinating stuff about horse training comes in. Outstanding work for juvenile and early YA readers but probably best for horse-crazy girls. Still, I as an adult horse-crazy girl found it riveting.______________ WOW! I wrote a book!!! — Want to take a look??? ———just go here:http://www.ebay.com/itm/CTHULHU'S-COUSINS-and-Other-Weirdnesses-W-Paul-Ganley-Wildside-Press-2016-/252568665138?hash=item3ace43fc32 Want to look at my other offerings, mostly weird/fantastic/SF books/magazines/fanzines? CLICK HERE(and if you like what you see there, why not bookmark it for future visits!) Interested in swords & sorcery books, with the sorcery borrowed from H P Lovecraft? Check out my Brian Lumley books in my store!!!!! SAVE ON SHIPPING! --- ORDER MORE THAN ONE BOOK FROM ME AT THE SAME TIME! For all "buy it now" items, please use ADD TO CART if you plan to order more than one item at the same time.
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Year: 2009
Subject: adventure
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Book Title: Georges and the Jewels
Item Length: 8.6in.
Item Height: 0.9in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Jane Smiley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Animals / Horses, Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life, General, Religious / Christian / General, People & Places / United States / General
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
