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Available
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Publication
Jennifer Grais (2015), 328 pages
Description
Looking back, I could have never known how the Lost Herd would change my life forever, All I knew during the winter of my thirteenth year was that I was worried sick for all of Nevada's wild horses. Even as the snow fell, helicopters were driving the mustangs from the mountain and chasing them into a corral with a gate that would lock behind them forever. I wanted to save every last mustang from being captured, but as luck-or an incredible lack of luck-would have it. something so terrible, so unimaginable happened that in the end, I'd be the one who needed saving.
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LibraryThing member BooksCooksLooks
Every now and again I pick up a YA book (this is my second one in six weeks so there must be something in the air!) Christa’s Luck appealed to me ’cause I have always loved horse. I used to ride when I was a teenager and given more land and lots more money I’d have a horse now – well, after
Christa is teenager full of all of the angst that the age brings. Her best friend is her horse Lucky. Her sister is perfect and it seems that Christa can do nothing right. She finds a passion when she sees The Lost Herd, a band of mustangs known mostly as legend. She wants to make sure they stay wild but she has a long road to go.
Christa is hard to like sometimes but teenagers are challenging in real life and that just proves that she is a well written, fully developed character. She really finds herself through her love of the wild horses and that is something all teens need. There are parts of the story – particularly the ending that just seem to serve the purpose of the ending that I struggled with – and it’s not just in the reading of a YA book. I’ve read many that I’ve enjoyed wholeheartedly. But this is a book that I believe many adults and most teens – especially those that love horses will truly enjoy.
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the llama and the pig. I’ve seen the wild horses at Chincoteague in Virginia but wasn’t lucky enough to see the mustangs of the west. I know the roundups have been controversial. I live in a ranching state and it’s a powerful lobby – just ask the poor bison. But that’s another story altogether.Christa is teenager full of all of the angst that the age brings. Her best friend is her horse Lucky. Her sister is perfect and it seems that Christa can do nothing right. She finds a passion when she sees The Lost Herd, a band of mustangs known mostly as legend. She wants to make sure they stay wild but she has a long road to go.
Christa is hard to like sometimes but teenagers are challenging in real life and that just proves that she is a well written, fully developed character. She really finds herself through her love of the wild horses and that is something all teens need. There are parts of the story – particularly the ending that just seem to serve the purpose of the ending that I struggled with – and it’s not just in the reading of a YA book. I’ve read many that I’ve enjoyed wholeheartedly. But this is a book that I believe many adults and most teens – especially those that love horses will truly enjoy.
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LibraryThing member BooksCooksLooks
Every now and again I pick up a YA book (this is my second one in six weeks so there must be something in the air!) Christa’s Luck appealed to me ’cause I have always loved horse. I used to ride when I was a teenager and given more land and lots more money I’d have a horse now – well, after
Christa is teenager full of all of the angst that the age brings. Her best friend is her horse Lucky. Her sister is perfect and it seems that Christa can do nothing right. She finds a passion when she sees The Lost Herd, a band of mustangs known mostly as legend. She wants to make sure they stay wild but she has a long road to go.
Christa is hard to like sometimes but teenagers are challenging in real life and that just proves that she is a well written, fully developed character. She really finds herself through her love of the wild horses and that is something all teens need. There are parts of the story – particularly the ending that just seem to serve the purpose of the ending that I struggled with – and it’s not just in the reading of a YA book. I’ve read many that I’ve enjoyed wholeheartedly. But this is a book that I believe many adults and most teens – especially those that love horses will truly enjoy.
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the llama and the pig. I’ve seen the wild horses at Chincoteague in Virginia but wasn’t lucky enough to see the mustangs of the west. I know the roundups have been controversial. I live in a ranching state and it’s a powerful lobby – just ask the poor bison. But that’s another story altogether.Christa is teenager full of all of the angst that the age brings. Her best friend is her horse Lucky. Her sister is perfect and it seems that Christa can do nothing right. She finds a passion when she sees The Lost Herd, a band of mustangs known mostly as legend. She wants to make sure they stay wild but she has a long road to go.
Christa is hard to like sometimes but teenagers are challenging in real life and that just proves that she is a well written, fully developed character. She really finds herself through her love of the wild horses and that is something all teens need. There are parts of the story – particularly the ending that just seem to serve the purpose of the ending that I struggled with – and it’s not just in the reading of a YA book. I’ve read many that I’ve enjoyed wholeheartedly. But this is a book that I believe many adults and most teens – especially those that love horses will truly enjoy.
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Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0990605302 / 9780990605300