Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763637661
Realizing that his purpose in life is to help others, Macadoo, a colt whose sire is a huge Belgian stallion, survives a kill auction and trains as a vault jumper before happily pursuing work as a therapeutic riding horse.
Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763673323
Handsome but headstrong, a retired racehorse finds a second chance in this affecting, fast-paced novel told straight from the horse’s mouth. When Dante’s Inferno is born early, on a February night, there are already great expectations for him. He may be the grandson of the greatest racehorse in modern times, but Dante’s start proves a rough one, both in life and on the track. When Dante fails as a racehorse, he ends up at a Thoroughbred rescue facility run by rehabilitating prisoners before being adopted as a project horse at the Maury River Stables. It’s not easy for Dante to make friends—horse or human—but slowly horses Daisy and Napoleon let him into the fold, and a student named Ashley begins to work with him to learn dressage and jumping in hopes that he’ll find redemption as an eventing horse. Can Dante put his fears aside and succeed on the cross-country course? Narrated from Dante’s point of view, this is a story that animal lovers will cherish.
Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763656615
A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo — the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables. When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father — a huge Belgian stallion — in order to protect his dam. From that moment on, Mac knows that his purpose in life is to help others. From surviving a kill auction to learning how to be a vaulting horse to giving therapeutic riding lessons, Mac is always patient and never loses hope in his mission to serve others — and he finds the courage to “walk on” through even the most difficult circumstances. Told with insight and compassion from Macadoo’s point of view, this is a story that all horse lovers will cherish.
Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0763654302
"It’s rare and exciting to discover a talented new writer like Gigi Amateau." — Judy Blume Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy why she can’t possibly move in with Daddy — about the things he does that make her feel so ashamed. With a vivid narrative voice, Gigi Amateau tells an unflinching tale of a sensitive girl caught in the trauma of incestuous abuse. But it is also a story of survival — an ode to the solace of family, the mercy of strangers, and the possibility of hope and healing.
Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Walker
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Blindness in animals
ISBN : 9781406322583
On the night Chancey is born, a fire star gallops across the sky, a signal that a great horse has entered the world. It will take many years before the orphaned albino can believe the prophecy - that his star heralded the birth of a creature of profound wisdom and potential, one who would change the lives of two children for ever.
Author : Enid Bagnold
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486828824
"The book is one that horse lovers of every age cannot fail to enjoy." — The New York Times "Humorous, charming, National Velvet is a little masterpiece." — Time "Put on your not-to-be-missed list." — The New Yorker A butcher's daughter in a small Sussex town ends her nightly prayers with "Oh, God, give me horses, give me horses! Let me be the best rider in England!" The answer to fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown's plea materializes in the form of an unwanted piebald, raffled off in a village lottery, who turns out to be adept at jumping fences—exactly the sort of horse that could win the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National. Richly atmospheric of rural English life between the World Wars, National Velvet has enchanted generations of readers since its 1935 debut. The heroine's grit and determination, backed by the support of her eccentric and loving family, offer an inspiring example of the struggles and rewards of following a dream.
Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763647926
Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel", a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-Americans slaves like himself to rebel.
Author : Will T. Hale
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789353601904
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Kiersi Burkhart
Publisher : Darby Creek (Tm)
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467792535
"The beautiful gray gelding Shy Guy is just as afraid of people as Hanna is of horses, but when a greedy local couple steal him, only Hanna and her friend can get him back"--
Author : Judy Alter
Publisher : Sunbelt Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781571680921
This book places Saint Augustine's theology in a new and illuminating context by considering what he has to say about beauty. It demonstrates how a theological understanding of beauty revealed in the created, temporal realm enabled Augustine to form a positive appreciation of this realm and the healing power within it. It therefore reintroduces aesthetics alongside philosophy and ethics in Augustine's treatment of God. Unlike previous works, it shifts the emphasis away from Augustine's early and most theoretical treatises to his mature reflection as a bishop and pastor on how God communicates with fallen man. Using his theory of language as a paradigm, it shows how divine beauty, revealed in creation and history, serves to inspire fallen man's faith, hope, and most especially his love--thereby reforming him and restoring the form or beauty he had lost.
