Risky Chance / Alison Hart ; illustrated by Ruth Sanderson.
Material type:
TextSeries: Horse diaries ; .7.Publication details: New York : Random House, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 153 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cmISBN: - 037586833X (trade)
- 0375898832 (e-book)
- 0375968334 (lib. bdg.)
- 9780375868337 (trade)
- 9780375898839 (e-book)
- 9780375968334 (lib. bdg.)
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Horse di Hart | 7 | Available | 33111005360868 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For all lovers of horses and history, it's the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in California at the start of the Great Depression, Risky Chance is a gray thoroughbred who was born to race. Life at the track and being spoiled by his jockey's young daughter, Marie, is all Chance could ask for. He loves nothing more than running fast and winning. But after an accident, Chance discovers a side of horse racing that has little to do with glory.
Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's own point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about thoroughbreds, horse racing, and the Great Depression.
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.