The Night Ride

The Night Ride
J Anderson Coats
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NZ$ 35.00
Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 224pg
12 Oct 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781534480773
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The Black Stallion meets Tamora Pierce in this adventure-filled middle grade novel about a young stable girl who discovers a secret that endangers her beloved horse and threatens her future. Sonnia loves horses more than anything. She works at her family' s struggling pony ride business but dreams of the beautiful steeds in the royal stables, especially Ricochet, who she' s been slowly saving money to buy-even though she knows people from her impoverished neighborhood are rarely so lucky. Then Ricochet is moved to the racetrack across town, and Sonnia lands a job there. Now, she can see Ricochet every day and earn enough money to buy him in no time-all while helping her family with her new wages! She even joins the junior racing cadre to train to become a jockey. But then she uncovers their secret pastime: competing in the Night Ride, a dangerous and highly illegal race in the darkest hours before dawn. Every race puts the horses at risk. Sonnia wants to protect the horses she' s grown to care for, but she' s only a kid from the poor side of town-considered expendable, just like the horses. If she just keeps her head down, soon she can buy Ricochet and get him out of there-and keep supporting her family. But would she be able to live with herself?
"Sonnia is an engaging character with grit and determination. . . Engaging, true-to-life horse content will satisfy many. " -- Kirkus Reviews "Sonnia adores working with the horses . . . but she' s horrified to discover that the other stablehands compete for large sums in a dangerous and illegal nighttime race" . . . Coats' s fast-paced tale [absorbs] with meticulously observed horsey details and a tender interspecies relationship. " -- Publishers Weekly
J. Anderson Coats has master' s degrees in history and library science and has published short stories in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of the acclaimed novels The Wicked and the Just, The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, R Is for Rebel, The Green Children of Woolpit, and The Night Ride. She lives with her family in Washington State. Visit her at JAndersonCoats. com.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781534480773
Published: 12 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 349g
Pages: 224

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