Waterstones The One Dollar Horse
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Price: £7.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse. Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials. When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's criminal record, or the distraction of a boy with melty, dark eyes, with whom she refuses to fall in love. Casey learns the hard way that no matter how high you jump, or how fast you gallop, you can never outrun the past. A real life thriller that delves into the competitive and elite equestrian world from the 2011 BLUE PETER BOOK OF THE YEAR award-winning author. Waterstones The One Dollar Horse - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781444006360
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781444006360
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Author: Dawn Jones
Rating: 5
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Author: elnor
Rating: 4
Review: I got this for my niece who is very into horses at the moment, and I read it before giving it to her. I think it will appeal very much to that particular group of young teenage girls who are going through a pony-mad phase... it is well written, with likeable and believable characters. The only quibble I have with it is its predictable ending. I also used to ride and show competitively; one of the reasons I stopped was I couldn't live with the ruthless drive for ribbons and cups at the cost of everything else... least of all the well-being of the horse. It would have been nice if Casey had actually pulled up her horse Storm during the Badminton Trials because it was in his best interests- this to me would have been a more valuable lesson learned for young readers. That winning isn't everything- the horse should ALWAYS be the priority. Having witnessed horses that were left damaged, crippled, or on one occasion even having to be destroyed because of over-intensive training, (and twenty-five years later I can still remember his name- poor Henry!) it would have been nice to have been left with a different outcome.
