Wonder's Promise (Thoroughbred) - Softcover

Campbell, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061067059 ISBN 13: 9780061067051

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992

Synopsis

Ashleigh Griffen is thrilled when the owner of the horse farm where she lives puts Wonder, the sickly filly she has raised, into training as a Thoroughbred racer, but Wonder's disobedience could shatter Ashleigh's dreams. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Joanna Campbell appears here with her six-year-old Thoroughbred, Meyersville Magic, known around the barn as CC. He's a son of Horatius out of Northwich by Timothy's Champ and is owned by Cathy Day. Formerly trained for racing, he is now being trained for eventing. Last Year he was the Maine Entry Level Champion in Combined Training.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-8-- Ashleigh Griffen, 13, loves the yearling filly, Wonder. She has nursed the young horse and dreams of her triumphs on the track. Like Farley's Alec Ramsey in The Black Stallion , she finds an ally in a crusty old trainer, Charlie, who sympathizes with her when a brash young trainer treats the animal harshly. Ashleigh frets about Wonder throughout the book's first half, and the story abruptly changes when the horse farm abandons training the willful horse and Charlie and the girl secretly transform her into a potential champion. Ashleigh becomes a more interesting character as she matures from a complaining child into a confident exercise rider. Readers will enjoy watching her growth and understand her fear while she learns to handle the excitable animal. Unfortunately, the book frequently lapses into sentimentality. Ashleigh persistently states how Wonder's devotion will overcome all obstacles--such love exists only in stories like this one. --Charlene Strickland, formerly at Albuquerque Public Library , NM
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0061067059
• ISBN 13: 9780061067051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200