Storm Horse - by Nick Garlick (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Chicken House."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A stirring, moving story about a boy and the horse he rescues from the sea -- Kate DiCamillio meets <i>War Horse</i>.</b><p></p>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 <i>is a thrilling, heartfelt tale of a boy, a horse, and their journey together towards a new life.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Storm Horse</i>: </b> * Set in 1966, the book's island locale, plot, and characters are so well-defined that readers will be riveted to the narrative as it unfolds. A rare boy-and-his-horse story worthy of any collection. -- <i>Booklist</i>, starred review<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Nick Garlick was born in 1954 and lived, worked, or went to school in just about every part of England before moving to the Netherlands in 1990.His first book, <i>California Dreaming<i>, was a science-fiction thriller published in 1981. After many years working as a freelance technical writer, copywriter, editor, and translator, he published his first two children's stories with Andersen Press.He now lives with his wife and a vegetable-eating cat in the city of Utrecht, where he's currently working on more children's stories.
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