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  <title><![CDATA[My Friend Flicka]]></title>
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  <default-description>A daydreamer and a time waster, young Ken McLaughlin spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds, surrounded by endless blue skies, wide-open spaces, and beautiful horses. To his brusque, practical father, the boy is an enigma and a disappointment. Then one day, Ken's life is filled with new purpose when he finds Flicka, a magnificent filly as wild as she is fast. Though the strong bond between boy and horse only fuels his father's disdain, Ken's growing love for his friend Flicka is changing him -- leading a once-aimless young man down the path to responsible adulthood, forging a new respect and understanding between father and son, and inspiring a fierce loyalty that nearly costs Ken his life.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1941</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary O'Hara]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 09 21:45:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've never been West around Colorado/Wyoming, O'Hara recreates it and captures it in her novels. I didn't realize just how well until I moved here and started recognizing the scenery.<br/><br/>I've reread her books many times now and will likely reread them many  more, hence the 5 stars.  I'v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62870325">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 22 12:20:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is my all time favorite. I say this because I have read it every 2 years or so since I was young. I can't really say that about any other book, although I am one of those people that will keep and reread, several times, books that I like. 'My Friend Flicka` is set on a ranch south ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25129802">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 26 07:23:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this to my girls at night before bed and am surprised that they looked forward to the next installment each night.  I found it a bit slow, but it is a tale of transformation - how a day-dreamer boy takes on the real life task of &quot;gentling&quot; a filly with &quot;wild&quot; blood.  Confr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38686714">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 12:37:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book when I was eight or nine, and have wished for Wyoming ever since. It's a lovely story about a shy, dreamy kid who hates school and desperately wants his father's respect, but who can't help always doing something clumsy or forgetting something important. For the summer, he wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5589366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3987977">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 02 15:25:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent so many hours as a kid reading Marguerite Henry and Walter Farley and all of the horse-related books I could find.  I memorized all of the breeds listed in <em>The Noble Horse</em> and their characteristics, and obsessed over horse racing for years.  My grandmother and I used to take the train down t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3987977">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this many years ago- a wonderful story about a strong bond between a boy and the horse that eventually becomes his.  When I saw commercials for the movie version of this, I was appalled that they changed the main character to a girl instead of a boy... talk about character indiscrepancy!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm always a bit wary of animal books but got curious about this one after reading The Horse Whisperer, then the biography of an actual horse whisperer (can't remember the title) who credited this children's book as being the first published example of the technique. I loved this story and plan to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21674766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61442066">
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    <body><![CDATA[i will re-read this book at least 1 time a yr... amazingly touching.. the story of a boy and his horse &lt;3]]></body>
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    <review id="46242181">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite book growing up! Series also includes Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming.]]></body>
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    <review id="52420721">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm keeping this book for my grandchildren.  It was great, and I'd like to see the movie now.]]></body>
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    <review id="48053681">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i liked it.... sometimes it got boring but overall it was better than i expected]]></body>
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    <review id="43504494">
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    <body><![CDATA[A completly amasing story of a young boy, his father, and a high-spirited horse.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="46661366">
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    <body><![CDATA[A very long book. It was good but was a little slow and boring at certain parts]]></body>
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    <review id="38970099">
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    <body><![CDATA[i really liked this as a kid. one of my first &quot;chapter books&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had not realized, when I was younger, that this story has so much real-life struggle in its narrative.  The author, Mary O’Hara, addresses deep marriage struggles, difficult transitions in life, and the heartbreak of dreams conflicting with reality.  She also has several passages that discuss pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17720686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62815355">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book inspired my love of reading when I was about 10 or 11.]]></body>
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    <review id="64345016">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great childhood book  I've read this book several times.]]></body>
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    <review id="49607561">
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    <body><![CDATA[A great friendship book! Definitely a good one!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book and it is a very good book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic well worth loving. Most of us who were horse-crazy as kids recognize at least the name of the book; I certainly read it several times as a child. However, it only improves with age. I am astonished by how excellent the writing is; O'Hara's descriptions are vivid and expressive. And despite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23309038">more...</a>]]></body>
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