Everyday Friends

Diggs, Lucy

ISBN 10: 0689311974 ISBN 13: 9780689311970

Publisher: Atheneum

Synopsis

Overshadowed by her accomplished older sister, thirteen-year-old Marcy feels insecure and incapable of sticking to any project or activity until she meets thirteen-year-old Natasha, an accomplished horsewoman, and determines to learn to ride herself.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-8 Diggs incorporates abundant, practical information on riding, rating a purchase and show competition into this horse crowd pleaser. Just when Marcy's best friend defects to the boy-crazy set at the beginning of eighth grade, Marcy meets a new girl, Natasha, whose sculptor/mother Sasha teaches Marcy to ride. With her parents' hard-won approval, Marcy acquires a gelding and stormily drops her piano studies, symbolic of her structured life. The excitement of her first major show charges the final pages. Like K. M. Peyton's Fly-By-Night (Farrar, 1976; o.p.) and Monday Horses (Greenwillow, 1978; o.p.) by Jean S. Doty, the story moves through its paces with impulsion. Marcy is eventually able to appreciate her own stable home life, which earlier she felt had paled in comparison to Nat's somewhat bohemian life style. In the end, Marcy achieves well-being through her friendship with Nat, her show performance and her appearance. Readers who share her horse fever will be pleased.Pat Harrington, Phoenix Public Lib .
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• ISBN 10: 0689311974
• ISBN 13: 9780689311970
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256