Storm Horse

By Nick Garlick

Book Overview

A stirring, moving story about a boy and the horse he rescues from the sea -- Kate DiCamillio meets War Horse.

With his mother missing and his father dead, twelve-year-old Flip's new home is a remote Dutch island. Menaced by the local bullies and followed everywhere by a mysterious girl, he wonders how he'll ever adapt to life on his uncle's farm.But everything changes the day a sinking ship leaves a horse drowning in the waves. Risking his life to rescue it, Flip is told he may keep the horse -- but only if he can teach it how to work for its keep. From that moment on a friendship grows. But can a boy and a horse really save each other? And what other dark storm threaten their hard-won happiness?Storm Horse is a thrilling, heartfelt tale of a boy, a horse, and their journey together towards a new life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545904145
• ISBN13: 9780545904148
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Chicken House
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7