Heartland #1: Coming Home: Coming Home

by Lauren Brooke

Book Overview

Amy's mother founded Heartland, a place for healing traumatized horses, but Amy, who inherited her mother's skills with horses, must continue her work after an accident on a stormy night kills her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439130204
• ISBN13: 9780439130202
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The book is great

I was disappointed that the book says $1.99 but I got charged over $3.00.

Healing Horses, Healing Hearts- a wonderful series

Heartland is a place Amy's mother started after nursing her husband's show jumper, Pegasus, back to health using alternative remedies and therapies, due to an accident that the horse and rider were both injured, and Amy's father leaves to recover. She started to take in other problem or abused horses and helped them to learn to trust again. When she died, Amy and her older sister, had to take over everything, and tried to keep the place going. Amy finds she has the same horse-whispering talents as her mother, and struggles to take over the work her mother had done so well. Amy works hard to keep Heartland in business and to overcome the sadness of losing her mother, to realize it was not her fault her mother died. This book was very emotional and descriptive, written very well. You could feel Amy's sadness at losing her mother in an accident that she felt was her fault, for she had convinced her mother to go out in a storm to rescue an abandoned horse, Spartan. I recommend this book to everyone who has some connection with the world of the horse, or anyone who loves reading at all. This book has everything- romance, adventure, drama, action, and tragedy that will keep you blowing your nose and crying your heart out until you take the trip to the library or your local bookstore to pick up the rest of the series, when it will start all over again. The entire series is wonderful and heartbreaking, and I highly recommend every single book that is included to you. The rest of the series deals with Amy adjusting to her new life without her mother and her sister's new ideas to keep Heartland up and running, and to face the horse that is the subject to all Amy's fears and heartache, Spartan.

Heartland is great!

I found the book in a bookstore last summer, from it's title I could tell it was going to be good, I was very surprised at how different this book was from other horse books. I have already bought heartland two and I will buy number 3 very soon! If you like horses, or if you have lost a loved one, you would love heartland.

Pretty Good!

It was a very good book, and better than some of the stuff I've read. I really can't say that there's anything bad about it. No romance, swearing, or action in the whole thing. Not that that's bad. I would recommend it to anyone. Extremely good! Especially since I've read just about every horse book there is!