Sheila Ruble

Broschiertes Buch

Fire Pony

Beschreibung

Twelve year old Cricket O’Conner lives on a Montana horse ranch, where she reluctantly assists her mother with breaking young horses to saddle. When she finds out that her mother expects her to work with a particularly difficult three year old, Cricket thinks her summer can’t get any worse. But Cricket’s wrong---her summer does get worse. Much worse. When wildfire threatens the ranch and two valuable colts go missing, Cricket has to make a choice—help her mother try to save the house and barn or ride out alone on the half-broke Gonna Be to find the missing colts. Cricket clings to the hope that her birthday purchase of a unique, hand-painted model horse will bring her good luck and help save the ranch. But will it? Or will the mysterious Fire Pony attract fire, rather than repel it? Fire Pony touches on crucial issues facing the intermountain West: drought, beetle-kill, and wildfire in the urban-wildlands interface. More than just an adventure story for middle graders, Fire Pony can be a thought-provoking read for any age.

Autor

As lifelong residents of the Rocky Mountain West, Sheila Ruble and her husband, Bob, have had their share of encounters with wildfire and its aftermath, both at their cabin and at their home, a few miles north of Billings, Montana.Always fascinated by animal behavior and training, Ruble has worked with a number of dogs and horses, as a dog obedience instructor, US Pony Club instructor, and 4-H leader. She has competed successfully in dressage, dog obedience, canine scent work, and lower-level agility. For eight months in 2009, she worked with seven severely traumatized dogs rescued from a hoarding situation. An avid amateur photographer, Ruble shot many of the original photos on which the illustrations in both Fire Pony and Cricket's Choice were based. Fire Pony, written in Ruble's mid-seventies and her first young adult book, was a 2019 finalist for the Willa Award for Literary Excellence: Women Writing the West. She is also the co-author of a book of poetry for adults, Listening to Stones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sheila B. Ruble
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 353g
• ISBN-13: 9780985258214
• ISBN-10: 0985258217
• Artikelnr.: 56782014