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One Unhappy Horse by C. S. Adler Jan doesn't care that the other girls at school tease her about "going steady" with her horse Dove. As long as she has Dove she is content with her life. But when it becomes apparent that Dove needs an operation on one of his legs, Jan becomes terrified that she might lose him. Money has been tight ever since Dad died, and Mom simply doesn't have enough to pay for the surgery. Strong characterization a compelling plot, and a vivid Arizona setting combined in a story that all young horse lovers will take to their hearts. Hardcover: 156 pages. Excerpt: It was hot, over a hundred, even though it was early October. Jan rode Dove toward the shade of the cottonwood trees growing along the wash on the southern border of the ranch. But they hadn't gone much more than a few hundred feet before Dove started limping again. Jan slipped off his back and bent down to examine his right front leg. Mom had said Dove might have a stone bruise, but nothing appeared to be wrong. "If that's all it is, you're sure taking a long time to heal," Jan told her horse. He had been standing as if he were rooted in the corner of his pipe corral in the shade of the mesquite tree for a week now. Normally, Dove kept himself in motion most of the day. "You're hurting, tall, brown, and handsome?" Jan asked him. He snorted softly against her shoulder as she laid her cheek against his and combed his reddish brown mane with her fingers. His hair was much the same color as hers. She could still hear Dad's words when he'd given Dove to her five years earlier. "I picked him because he looks like you, Jan. Both long-boned graceful. And you got the same look in your eyes, like you want something." Now Dad was gone, and the only relief Jan could fined from the pain of her loss was being with Dove. Her horse understood her in some unspoken way that no one else did. Certainly not Mom, who understood nothing but work. Mom had closed so tightly into herself this past year that she barely seemed to notice she still had a daughter. Jan suspected she knew the choice Mom would have made if she'd had to pick between losing her husband or her child. |
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