SuitabookTrust and responsibility
Dan learns to rely on Ginger while attempting useful or urgent tasks, culminating in a dangerous rescue.
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Frances Evlin - Author
This is a historical adventure about accepting unwanted change, building trust with an animal, and helping others during demanding emergencies. Family adjustment, friendship and courage sit alongside physical danger.
How can twelve-year-old Dan Graham learn to accept a birthday present he didn’t want? Especially when that present is a skinny, sorrel mare named Ginger? The horseshoes Dan creates so she can do “special” jobs don’t always bring the desired results. Add to his problems being taunted by eighth-graders and befriending a Chinese boy whom no one else likes. Then he notices that his widower father is showing interest in the new school teacher. As if anyone could replace Dan’s mother! In 1900 Puget Sound country, Dan helps sandbag a flooding river, search for a lost child, and rescue snow-trapped cattle. But the scariest thing he’s ever done is ask Ginger to pull a cart across a frozen river, on a mercy mission to save a dying man. When the ice begins to crack, Dan learns the value of trust between him and Ginger Gold.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a historical adventure about accepting unwanted change, building trust with an animal, and helping others during demanding emergencies. Family adjustment, friendship and courage sit alongside physical danger.
Dan learns to rely on Ginger while attempting useful or urgent tasks, culminating in a dangerous rescue.
Some situations are potentially tense: taunting, flooding, a missing child, snow-trapped cattle, a dying man and cracking ice during a rescue. The emotional impact and outcomes are not fully clear.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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