Storm horse / Nick Garlick.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Chicken House, [an imprint of] Scholastic Inc., 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 242 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545904148
- 0545904145
- 9780545904155
- 0545904153
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- Uncles -- Juvenile fiction
- Horses -- Juvenile fiction
- Rescues -- Juvenile fiction
- Island life -- Netherlands -- Juvenile fiction
- Farm life -- Netherlands -- Juvenile fiction
- Bullies -- Juvenile fiction
- Bullying -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Netherlands -- Juvenile fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Garlick Nicholas | Available | 33111008617371 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Garlick Nicholas | Available | 33111008723948 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A stirring, moving story about a boy and the horse he rescues from the sea -- Kate DiCamillio meets War Horse . With his mother missing and his father dead, twelve-year-old Flip's new home is a remote Dutch island. Menaced by the local bullies and followed everywhere by a mysterious girl, he wonders how he'll ever adapt to life on his uncle's farm.But everything changes the day a sinking ship leaves a horse drowning in the waves. Risking his life to rescue it, Flip is told he may keep the horse -- but only if he can teach it how to work for its keep. From that moment on a friendship grows. But can a boy and a horse really save each other? And what other dark storm threaten their hard-won happiness?Storm Horse is a thrilling, heartfelt tale of a boy, a horse, and their journey together towards a new life.
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Chicken House."
His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge.