There are many twists and turns but the plot is easy to follow and gripping, I would recommend this book for girls aged from twelve. The One Dollar Horse is certain to be huge favourite with readers and will bear comparison with classic horse stories by authors such as Patricia Leitch and K M Peyton. To find out more, visit her website at Show Less When not rescuing leopards and dolphins, she is a full-time valet to her rescued, and not in the least demanding, Bengal cat, Max. A passionate conservationist, Lauren is an Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, a patron for horse sanctuary, Mane Chance, and the founder of Authors4Oceans. Along with her veterinary nursing training, it served as perfect research for her Kat Wolfe mystery series and The Snow Angel, a standalone MG novel. Before becoming a children's author, she worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times, writing about sports, music and spies. Dead Man's Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin Mystery series, won the Blue Peter Book of. Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, cats, dogs and a pet giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe, the inspiration for her bestselling White Giraffe and One Dollar Horse series, as well as her YA horse novel, The Glory.

A real life thriller that delves into the competitive and elite equestrian world from the 2011 BLUE PETER BOOK OF THE YEAR award-winning author. Casey learns the hard way that no matter how high you jump, or how fast you gallop, you can never outrun the past. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's criminal record, or the distraction of a boy with melty, dark eyes, with whom she refuses. When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials. A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse.

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