The Yonaholosee Riding Camp for Girls Paperback, 432 pages Riverhead Trade, June 3, 2014 (first published June 6, 2013) Thea Atwell, 15, has been sent from her family home in Florida to attend a girls boarding school for the southern elite, one at which she will learn to become an accomplished h...
The Plot: 15-year-old Thea Atwell is sent away from her beloved childhood home to the Yonahlossee Riding Camp of the title - a summer camp for wealthy Southern debutantes and a year-round school for troubled wealthy Southern debutantes. The "terrible sin" for which she was sent away is unravelled th...
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is the coming-of-age story of Thea Atwell - and it is unlike any other such story I've ever read (and I've read quite a few!). Thea lives in Florida during the Great Depression, and she is sent away for an as yet unknown indiscretion to the Yonahlossee Riding Ca...
I was not so angry with my situation that I could not discern beauty.2.5 stars. The above phrase from the book describes my exact feelings about Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. I can't remember the last time I've wanted to love a book more than I wanted to love this one. When the tale is about yo...
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (only time I will type out the title) was a pretty interesting read for me. Though I didn't like it very much at all, I still sort of enjoyed myself and thought the author did a lot of things right. So maybe I should talk about those first.I liked the writing a ...
You know what I don't like? Those chapters that kind of sum everything up for us dumb readers. You know, when we're not smart enough to draw our own conclusions. That's how I read the final chapter or two of this one.The entire book was beautifully written, but the story didn't grab me until I wa...
From a historical perspective, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a fascinating look at another side of the Great Depression. While many novels set in this time period focus on those who have already lost everything or did not have much to lose in the first place, Ms. Disclafani spotlights tho...
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