C S Adler
More Than a Horse
Clarion Books, New Y ork, 1997. 188pp. HB.
Houghton & Mifflin, 2001, HB.
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other children riding at the ranch, but then she annoys the ranch
foreman so much she is banned from the
stables. Just when she manages to win him
round, her mother decides they must return to North Carolina.
That Horse Whiskey
Clarion Books, New York, 1994, 152 pp. HB.
Camelot (pb), 1996
Lainey’s father has promised to buy her a horse for her 13th birthday, but her birthday
comes, and there is no
horse. She eventually finds out this is because there are
money troubles, and she then determines to earn
money and sort out her own problems.
She makes a deal with the owner of a ranch to reform a problem horse.
One Unhappy Horse
Clarion Books, New York, 2000, 156 pp. HB.
Thorndike Juvenile Press, 2001 (Large Print)
Set on a ranch in Tucson Arizona, the heroine, Jan, thinks her mother doesn’t love
her. Her father has died, and
she has no f riends, no money, and her horse is limping.
There is no money for the vital operation the horse, Dove,
needs, and everything
seems hopeless until Jan makes a friend of Mattie, who lives in a retirement home
nearby.
C. S. Adler (Carole S Adler) has written over 40 children’s books. Before becoming a full time writer, she was an English teacher. She moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1996, having lived most of her life in New York, and it was then that she started writing about horses. She has written three horse stories, all about girls in the early teenage years, and with ranch settings.
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for all her help with the photographs.
Finding the books: The books appear still to be in print if you want to buy new ones. That Horse Whiskey is easy to find in paperback and hard back, and More Than a Horse and One Unhappy Horse are both very easy to find. None of the books had a UK publication, but are all easy to find, and not too expensive, in America.
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