Untamable. Damaged. Angry. Once full of promise and life, now a fiery knot of resentment and detachment. This is the story of Dream of Night, an injured and abused racehorse. It's also the story of Shiloh, a sarcastic eleven-year-old foster child. By chance, Dream of Night and Shiloh both find themselves under the care of Jessalyn DiLima. Just in time-it's a last chance for them both.

Jess fosters animals and kids like Dream of Night and Shiloh for a reason-she's a little broken, too. And as the three of them become an unlikely family, they recognize their similarities in order to heal their pasts-but not before one last tragedy threatens to take everything away.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Great Stone Face Book Award. It was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Black-Eyed Susan Award. It also was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Simon & Schuster .

Heather Henson lives on a farm in Kentucky with her husband and three children, and is the author of several critically acclaimed picture books and novels, including the Christopher Award-winning That Book Woman and Dream of Night.