Shy Girl & Shy Guy (Quartz Creek Ranch)

ISBN 10: 1467792535 ISBN 13: 9781467792530

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"A middle school girl reluctantly experiences the therapeutic power of horses during a summer at Quartz Creek Ranch. When Paley Dixon's parents abruptly moved the family from LA to Denver just before the start of her sixth-grade year, Paley had trouble making friends and instead retreated into all-night video gaming. Now her parents have stuck her for six weeks of the summer on a ranch full of kids with troubled pasts--and no internet. Paley, who along with another camper and a trainer is black, is assigned a beautiful horse named Prince but lacks the self-confidence to lead him, let alone ride him. While she grows to like some of the other campers--there are only five--others send her further into her shell. The owners of the neighboring ranch present some stereotypical conflict, calling the campers 'delinquents.' (None of them has done anything particularly terrible.) A more unusual dilemma comes when the campers find a fossilized dinosaur skeleton and must work together to protect it from harm. This is series fiction, but it's a step above the usual breathless horsey fare, with well-drawn characters and realistic horse situations. Most notably, they're not all white or girls! Fearful, white Hanna, a girl who copes with her overcritical parents by stealing, is the featured protagonist among a different but similarly diverse group of campers in the simultaneously publishing Shy Girl & Shy Guy. A good book to hand out to horse-crazy kids."--Kirkus Reviews

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"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"--

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• ISBN 10: 1467792535
• ISBN 13: 9781467792530
• Einband: Encuadernación de biblioteca