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2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection
A teen girl's quest to find her mother leads her to the big city, and gives her the courage to fulfill her dream of becoming a jockey.
Evangeline "Evie" Gibb lives a seemingly charmed life on a thoroughbred racehorse farm. But in reality, Evie feels alone in the world, cheered only by the affection of a racehorse named No Justice.
She's always been told that her mother, Angela Parson, is dead. Then, on her sixteenth birthday, a card arrives from her great aunt Mary with the suggestion that Angela might still be alive — and Evie's life is turned upside down. In hopes of winning enough money to leave her hateful father and find her mother, Evie enters the Caledon Horse Race. But something she overhears her father say changes everything, and Evie steals the racehorse in the night and runs away. With a stray dog named Magpie at her side and help from Aunt Mary, Evie unearths long-hidden family secrets, finds unexpected love, and takes the racing world by storm.
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February 6, 2016 -
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- ISBN: 9781459734364
- File size: 858 KB
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- ISBN: 9781459734364
- File size: 858 KB
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January 15, 2016
Classic misunderstood-child-and-damaged-horse with a modern twist. When 16-year-old motherless Evangeline "Evie" Gibbs receives a letter hinting that her mother might actually still be alive, she swipes a difficult horse from her father's racing stable and enters him in a local race, counting on the prize money to help fund a search for her mother. That the horse wins is surprising only because he's been banned from Canada's registered tracks for dangerous behavior. When Evie finds out her father intends to have the horse destroyed, she takes him and runs away--straight into the arms of a loving, horsey great-aunt, who helps her reinstate the horse, No Justice, as an entry in Canada's famed Queen's Plate. Wildly melodramatic, Evie's third-person story gallops so quickly readers barely notice the choppy writing and logical errors. It's a fun read, and Peterson gets her horse details right. Best of all, she doesn't sugarcoat the harsh aspects of Evie's drug-addicted mother's life on the street, nor does she oversimplify the complicated difficulties of poverty and homelessness. Nothing's very deep here, but everything is true. This outing will thrill Peterson's fans--she has many in Canada--and should win her some new ones. (Fiction. 10-16)COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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