The Red Pony
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life - but tragedy soon follows. As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he...
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Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life - but tragedy soon follows. As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he starts to understand what growing-up and becoming an adult really means.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141332901 (0141332905)
Publish date: March 1st 2011
Publisher: Puffin Books
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Animals,
Horses
My spouse heard a piece of music on the radio by Aaron Copeland that had apparently been composed for a movie version of Steinbeck's novella. Well, I'd never heard of this book, so naturally, when I discovered my library had a copy I could snag, I downloaded it. Basically, this is a series of four s...
A great story Steinbeck gets better with each book I read so I keep asking myself why didn't I read this sooner .So good
A great story Steinbeck gets better with each book I read so I keep asking myself why didn't I read this sooner .So good
This is a short book, but it took me a while to return to the book after I finished the first story and basically today I just powered through it. There are four short stories within this book, and none of them work off the others, but they use the same people in all stories. The Gift - young boy ...
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