Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Horse Whisperer

Title: The Horse Whisperer
Author: Nicholas Evans
Reviewer: Hannah Q.
Summary: When two girls and their horses get into a tragic crash their world's turn upside down. One girl and her beloved horse die and the other horse, Pilgrim, and rider, Grace, are seriously injured. Then Grace's mother, Annie, hopes to find a "horse whisperer" to help cure Pilgrim's horrible thoughts and memories from this terrifing day. Grace and Annie move from there busy home in New York City to a rustic cabin in Montana where Tom Brooker, the horse whisperer, try to cure Grace and Pilgrim's wounded soul's. Will Tom and Annie be able to cure there soul's or will they be troubled forever?

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Call of the Wild


Author- Jack London
Title. Call of the Wild
Summary- Call Of The Wild

Bucks father was the beloved St. Bernard that belonged to Judge Miller in the pastoral hills of the Santa Clara Valley in California, and his mother was a great German Shepard. Judge Miller owns a huge mansion complex with other dogs, horses, stables, vineyards. Buck loves this calm existence, carrying the Judge's grandchildren on his back and serving as the Judge's faithful companion, as his father had been before him. However, one summer day in 1897, the Judge's gardner unjustly sells him for a meager price, and from there the brave dog begins a long journey ending in Dyea, Alaska. Buck is sold away to a Canadian pair named Perrault and Francois in need of sled dogs. Arriving on the mainland, Buck encounters many obstacles in this cold, icy place quite unlike where he grew up. Among these obstacles is the cruelty of many humans, other vicious dogs, and the cold weather itself. With these two Canadians, Buck forges a relationship of respect, pulling them from the Yukon Territory where the Klondike Gold Rush is raging, to Alaska, since Perrault is a special messenger for the Canadian government.