A pulitzer prize winner makes her debut for young readers. jane smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a california horse ranch in the 1960s. seventh-grader abby lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. her father insists they call all the mares jewel and all the geldings george and warns abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. but with all the stress at school (the big four have turned against abby and her friends) and home (her brother danny is gonefor good, it seemsand now daddy wont speak his name), abby seeks refuge with the georges and the jewels. but theres one gelding on her familys farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who wont meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. she calls him the ornery george. .

 

This book features in the following series: Horse Of Oak Valley Ranch, Horses Of Oak Valley Ranch .

This book has been graded for interest at 10+ years.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers .

Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, Missouri. In 1992 she won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres, for which she also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her books about Abby and her horses are her first for children. Star Horse is the fourth in the series.