Download The Georges and the Jewels: Horses of Oak Valley Ranch, Book 1 AudioBook Free
A Pulitzer Prize victor makes her debut for young listeners. Abby Lovitt has been operating horses for so long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a single one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her never to get fastened. The horses are there on the ranch to be sold, plain and simple. But with all the stress at college (the top Four - Linda, Mary A., Mary N., Joan - have converted against her) and home (little or nothing seems right with her sibling, Danny, vanished), Abby can't help but seek comfort in the Georges and the Jewels, who greet her every day with tender nickers. Aside from one: the horses who won't meet her gaze, the horses who cash her off, the horses Daddy insists she trip and coach. Abby knows never to cross her father, but she has learned, too, that she can't reunite on Ornery George. And out of the blue the horses seem like no refuge at all. From Pulitzer Reward victor Jane Smiley comes an emotionally priced and action-filled book for young listeners, occur the vibrant scenery of 1960s California horses country.
