| Record Number |
22118 |
| ISBN |
9781760653569 (paperback) |
| 176065356X |
| Location |
CHC F MER |
| Author |
Merchant, Jackie, (author). |
| Title |
The homecoming horse / Jackie Merchant. |
| Published |
Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Collation |
307 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
"Because home is where the heart is". -- Front cover. |
| Summary Note |
Since losing the family farm, and her mum leaving, home for 13-year-old Kennedy has been the back of a horse truck, travelling to remote stock camps with her dad. Her dad is determined to find enough money to get them a place to call their own, to keep them together. So when they are given a young grey gelding to be trained and sold, Kennedy knows that she can't get attached. Because if home is where the heart is, then she better not let a horse steal her heart. |
| Target Audience |
9-12 years old. |
| Reading Program |
VIC Premier's reading challenge 5-6 |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Fiction |
| Horses -- Fiction |
| Human-animal relationships -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Families Juvenile fiction. |
| Belonging (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Belonging (Social psychology) |
| Fathers and daughters |
| Horsemanship |
| Horses |
| Human-animal relationships |
| Single-parent families |
| Horses -- Children's fiction |
| Belonging (Social psychology) -- Children's fiction |
| Single-parent families -- Children's fiction |
| Human-animal relationships -- Children's fiction |
| Horsemanship -- Children's fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Children's fiction |
| Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction |
| Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Horses -- Juvenile fiction |
| AUS fiction (Australia) |
| Australian |
