false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808399m/6276596.jpg 6276596 2 <i>A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.<br></i><br>Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares “Jewel” and all the geldings “George” and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone—for good, it seems—and now Daddy won’t speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there’s one gelding on her family’s farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won’t meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George. 6460085 8 9 2009 The Georges and the Jewels total:31|5:8|4:11|3:8|2:4|1:0| 31 116 66 16 5 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:04:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:04:38 -0700 2009 This book was so perfectly right for me, that I originally felt I couldn’t judge it objectively. So, first I gave it to my daughter who is just starting to ride. And, then I gave it to my mother who was never bitten by the horse bug. We all absolutely loved it. It is a wonderful book tha...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 15:05:54 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 05:43:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:52:46 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:29:59 -0700 2009 Like Smiley’s “Horse Heaven,” “The Georges and the Jewels” takes a fond, detailed look at all things equine. Unlike that wickedly satirical ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:42:42 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:55:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 19:01:06 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 09:14:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:51:18 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 14:52:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 24 06:54:01 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 06:54:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 14:36:01 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 15:25:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 24 10:29:55 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 10:33:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:22:54 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:30:41 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 11:17:53 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 11:21:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 13:04:04 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 10:57:15 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed May 27 13:07:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 13:07:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 13:41:28 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 17:26:55 -0700 2009
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