Age
8-12
Grade
3-7
Nick Garlick
Storm Horse
Hardcover
(Chicken House Jan. 31, 2017)
With his mother missing and his father dead, twelve-year-old Flip's new home is a remote Dutch island. Menaced by the local bullies and followed everywhere by a mysterious girl, he wonders how he'll ever adapt to life on his uncle's farm.
But everything changes the day a sinking ship leaves a horse drowning in the waves. Risking his life to rescue it, Flip is told he may keep the horse -- but only if he can teach it how to work for its keep. From that moment on a friendship grows. But can a boy and a horse really save each other? And what other dark storm threaten their hard-won happiness?
Storm Horse is a thrilling, heartfelt tale of a boy, a horse, and their journey together towards a new life.
- ISBN
- 0545904145 / 9780545904148
- Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 3.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 1.2
in.