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Pie in the Sky
By Smiley, Jane
- ISBN
- 978-0-37586-696-6 978-0-37596-696-3 978-0-37598-853-4
- Publisher
- Knopf
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Fiction
Gr 5-8–Abby Lovitt, first introduced in A Good Horse (Knopf, 2010) returns. The teenage daughter of a respected horse trader, Abby can’t remember not riding. She loves her beautiful but green horse, True Blue, but is stuck at an impasse training him. Her time is constrained even more when she is tapped to ride Pie in the Sky, a prize jumper whose owner, Sophia, no longer wants to ride. While working with Pie, Abby re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
Her first time showing on her horse Blue, Abby (The Georges and the Jewels, rev. 11/09; A Good Horse, rev. 11/10; True Blue, rev. 11/11) hopes to make a good impression. Instead, Blue plows through his jumps and ends up on the bank beside the judging stand, eye-to-eye with the influential judge Peter Finneran. At a clinic later that week, Finneran advises Abby to smack Blue smartly with the crop if he’s about to refuse a jump. But when Abby tries i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
