The Georges and the Jewels /
Jane Smiley ; with illustrations by Elaine Clayton.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Knopf, c2009.
- 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Pub Weekly, July 2009 Booklist, September 2009 Horn Book, April 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2009 Kirkus Review, August 2009
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
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Horses--Training--Fiction. Ranch life--California--Fiction. Family life--California--Fiction. Christian life--Fiction. Christian fiction.