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Cindy Blake wants to stay at Whitebrook Farm forever. After being shuffled from one foster home to another, she's finally found a place where people love her and, best of all, where she's surrounded by horses. Then Lavinia Townsend accuses Cindy of stealing. The authorities want to send her to another home, and even her new foster parents seem to doubt her. Cindy's troubles multiply when she discovers a mistreated horse and hides him. If they find out she's stolen a horse, she'll have to show more leave Whitebrook Farm for sure! show lessTags
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Campbell, Joanna. Cindy's Runaway Colt. 1995.
Cindy Blake knows the horse on her neighbor's farm is being mistreated and she must find a way to help the poor animal. In her efforts to save the horse, she jeopardizes her perfect foster family situation, with a great family on a beautiful horse farm.
This book attracts the millions of young girls in love with horses. Cindy is the distressed heroine who saves a horse's life which in turn makes her relationship with her foster parents even stronger. It is an easy, nonthreatening read for young adults.
Cindy Blake knows the horse on her neighbor's farm is being mistreated and she must find a way to help the poor animal. In her efforts to save the horse, she jeopardizes her perfect foster family situation, with a great family on a beautiful horse farm.
This book attracts the millions of young girls in love with horses. Cindy is the distressed heroine who saves a horse's life which in turn makes her relationship with her foster parents even stronger. It is an easy, nonthreatening read for young adults.
One of my favorites of the series, this book is about a runaway named Cindy who I really identified with.
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Joanna Campbell is a pseudonym used by Jo Ann Simon who was born and raised in Norwalk, Connecticut. Campbell wrote in the evenings after spending days working a full time job for a small corporate importing company. Her first book, Love Once In Passing, an adult time travel romance, was published by Avon Books in November 1981, after which show more Campbell was contracted to write several more time travel adult novels. She was still writing adult novels, but was persuaded to write several horse books for Bantam. Because of the success of the Bantam books, A Horse of Her Own, and The Wild Mustang, she was approached several years later to write a four book series about Thoroughbred racing, and thus began the Thoroughbred Series. She wrote the first 14 books in the series, as well as Shadowbrook Farm and Battlecry Forever!. In 1996, she chose to focus on writing adult novels and let other writers take over writing all future Thoroughbred books. There are now several authors involved in continuing the series, which numbers over 50 and still bears the name of it's creator. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Cindy's Runaway Colt
- Original title
- Cindy's Runaway Colt
- Original publication date
- 1995-05
- People/Characters
- Cindy Blake; Samantha McLean; Mike Reese; Gene Reese; Ashleigh Griffen; Beth McLean (show all 23); Ian McLean; Shining; Her Majesty; Lavinia Townsend; Blues King; Clay Townsend; Townsend Princess; Ken Maddock; Len; Vic Taleski; Ashleighs Wonder; Wonders Pride; Mr. Wonderful; Bo Jangles; Tor Nelson; Yvonne Ortez; Heather
- Important places
- Kentucky, USA; Whitebrook Farm; Townsend Acres
- First words
- Cindy Blake closed her eyes and breathed deeply, inhaling the wonderful smells of Whitebrook Farm:" freshly mown grass, polished leather, and, best of all, horses.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If only the two of them could stay at Whitebrook together forever.
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