Sand
A Fiction, Young Adult book. There are some good parts in this book. This is...
Fiction. Young Adult. SAND tells the story of a young girl, Willy Cameron, her horse named Sand, and her involvement with therapeutic riding. The novel begins when Willy is involved in a car accident and is paralyzed from the waist down. After the doctors tell her she may never walk again, Willy becomes depressed and self-pitying. She then meets a young boy, Ben, who is involved in therapeutic horseback riding for his juvenile arthritis. Ben persuades her to give it a try, and the riding gives Willy back the partial use of her legs. While still recovering, she takes on the training of Sand, a spirited rescue horse at the stable who was injured, and now spooks easily. When her friend Ben...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 200 pages
- ISBN: 9781553804734 / 0
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There are some good parts in this book. This is especially true in the passages that deal with therapy horses, where the author's personal experience shows through.Otherwise I have many problems. The young characters don't feel authentic. Their use of jargon strikes a dissonant chord. Then there is the issue of Willa's, response to...
