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The Georges and the Jewels (Hardcover)

By: Jane Smiley (Author) and Elaine Clayton (Illustrator)

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"It's the minute details of work with the horses that make this book sing, and horse-mad readers will snap it up."

"Pulitzer Prize-winner Smiley's first novel for young readers is a lyrical meditation on horses, families and the vicissitudes of peer relationships among girls."

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"A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
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Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone--for good, it seems--and now Daddy won't speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there's one gelding on her family's farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won't meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George.

Instructed by her father to not become attached to the horses on their ranch because they are to be sold, Abby does her best to abide, but after a series of personal dramas with her friends and the sudden departure of her brother, Abby's heart suddenly develops a soft spot for one particular gelding who behaves as stubbornly as a mule. Simultaneous.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley's first children's book is a tender, thoughtful book about a seventh grade girl learning to negotiate the challenging landscape of family and school. Set in 1960s California, Abby Lovitt helps her father on their horse ranch, and although her father warns her not to get too attached to the horses since they will be sold (he calls all the geldings George and all the mares Jewel), she can't help it. Once upon a time, her brother Danny trained horses, too, but since he left home, no one mentions him. School has turned into a battleground of popular girls who pick on her, and Abby is struggling with Ornery George, a gelding who just won't become gentle. This is a middle grade book perfect not only for horsey girls, but any girl coping with growing up.

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