Wild Thing (Winnie the Horse Gentler, Book 1)

by Dandi Daley Mackall

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

813

Publication

Tyndale Kids (2002), Edition: Illustrated, 173 pages

Description

Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of her life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted too. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure. In #1 Wild Thing, Winnie's fearful heart finally begins to trust God again as she tries to gentle the horse of her dreams, Wild Thing.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Organicshoes
Dandi Daley Mackall has created the must read series for the next generation. If you love God and horses this is the book for you! Winnie: The Horse Gentler follows 12 year old Winnie and her love for horses. By the end of this book you will not only have learned tons about horses but fall in love
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with a cast of characters and a family rebuilding itself after tragedy.
In the first book of the series, Wild Thing, Winnie and her sister Liz have just moved with their dad to a new town where Winnie spots the most beautiful horse she has ever seen and knows that she must own the horse. Through twists and turns Winnie gets the chance to see and work with the horse deemed ‘Wild Thing’ once Winnie with the help of some friends figures out how she can earn the money to buy ‘Wild Thing’ she goes to tell him and discovers that the owners have moved him.
Will Winnie find where they have taken ‘Wild Thing’ will she be able to have her dream horse at last? Will she ever see ‘Wild Thing’ again?
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2011

Physical description

6.7 inches

ISBN

9780842355421
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