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Discovering a diary that she kept as a girl while growing up on her parents' farm, champion rider Ashleigh Griffin relives memories of the horses she once loved, including a spirited colt stolen by horse thieves.Tags
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I went through a horses phase, just like every other little girl, but never found the Thoroughbred series until my father got me this book for Christmas and of course, I had to read it. I was so enthralled with it and the emotion behind it that when I discovered the rest of the series, and that it wasn't about the rest of young Ashleigh's life, that I never picked up the rest of the series.
A wonderful, and yet very sad, special edition of the Thoroughbred books. Ashleigh is cleaning when she finds her old diary from when she was a child, and the book takes the reader back to Ashleigh's past and the horrible heartache of a fatal virus sweeping through the farm.
One of the saddest of the Thoroughbred books. It is a look back into Ashleigh's early life and the tragedy of a virus overtaking the farm. A must read for anyone who enjoys the series.
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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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- Ashleigh's Diary
- Original title
- Ashleigh's Diary
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- Ashleigh Griffen
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