Declare Appertaining To Books Sky Rider
Title | : | Sky Rider |
Author | : | Nancy Springer |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
Published | : | July 5th 2000 by Harper Teen (first published 1999) |
Categories | : | Young Adult. Animals. Horses. Fiction. Fantasy |
Nancy Springer
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 3.95 | 142 Users | 27 Reviews
Narration Concering Books Sky Rider
News that her beloved horse, Tazz, must be put down has made the constant pain of Dusty's old back injury doubly sharp. But the night before the vet comes for Tazz, a mysterious teenager, the ghost of a young man who died a strange and violent death on her family's property, appears to Dusty and offers to take Tazz away with him. Away where? Dusty wonders, but Tazz trusts the boy. Dusty's beloved horse seems healed, willing to leap right over the sun, and so she lets him go with the stranger. It isn't long however, before the boy returns, and Dusty realizes she must help him find peace--or become entangled with his vengeful spirit for eternity.Point Books Supposing Sky Rider
Original Title: | Sky Rider |
ISBN: | 0380795655 (ISBN13: 9780380795659) |
Edition Language: | English |
Rating Appertaining To Books Sky Rider
Ratings: 3.95 From 142 Users | 27 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Sky Rider
Sky Rider is a memorable, thrilling story. If this book is laying on the shelf getting dusty, it might be time to wipe the cover and read it. It's a short story and shouldn't take long. If you like horses, I'm sure you'll also find this a sweet story. Dusty-the fourteen-year-old girl, the main character (it's a nickname, actually)-goes through hardships: her injury, the lost of a parent, and taking care of herself alone. She is extremely attached to her horse, Tazz, and through her horse, sheThe author did a really good job setting up Dusty's unhappy home life, but I think the story needed more interactions between Dusty and Skye to give it more impact.
When someone in my teen book club suggested that we read something with horses, I searched all over for a few young adult horse books for them to pick from. I came up with this book and Blind Beauty (which, incidentally, I'd already read but didn't remember reading until I looked at my booklist). The cover I saw in the catalog was different from this one. I am not sure if my poor opinion of this book has to do with the cover I got (cheesy) or with the actual writing. I think it is a combination.
BIO -- NANCY SPRINGER Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK
This story, though short was an amazing, sweet story. I am a horse lover and owner and this story touched my heart. A good story for kids and adults.
Lurlene McDaniel meets Bonnie Bryant in this short read about horses, justice and angels. 14-year-old Dusty's life can't seem to get much worse: she suffers from chronic back pain, the result of a driving accident that her drunk of a father was responsible for. She misses her deceased mother terribly, and the horse she loves is about to euthanized. Then a handsome and angry boy the color of moonlight appears and leads her suffering horse away to a pain free place. Dusty realizes the mysterious
This was a short and sweet story with a beautiful horse and a happy ending (well as happy as a story with a 16 year old thats killed by an unjustifiable and inexcusable crime can be). So we have two young characters that have both suffered grave injustices - 16 year old Skye Rider and 14 year old Destiny Dusty Grove you can tell pretty early on that Skye and Dusty need each other, that they need to heal each other. The story is written in multiple points of view; log reports from an Angel
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