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The Island of Lost Horses
By (Author) Stacy Gregg
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
20th July 2015
4th June 2015
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Ponies, horses and related animals
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Discovery and exploration
823.92
Short-listed for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Junior Fiction 2015
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
190g
Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses an epic Caribbean adventure!
On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus
When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she cant believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives.
As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the worlds rarest horses depends on her.
Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years.
Praise for The Princess and the Foal:
The perfect gift for girls with big dreams The Bookseller
Great new book 10/10 Newmarket Journal
Younger readers will delight in this heartwarming tale Horse
Stacy Gregg began writing fictional novels about horses for children with Mystic and the Midnight Ride (2007), the first in her Pony Club Secrets series. Stacy has since written a number of books in the successful Pony Club Secrets and Pony Club Rivals series. She is a three-time winner of the Children's Choice Junior Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for her novels: The Princess and the Foal (2014), The Island of Lost Horses (2015) and The Girl Who Rode the Wind (2016).