A Horse Came Running
by Meindert DeJong
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Features the story of a tornado, a horse and a boy in mid-west America. After the tornado, everything was hurt, and what's least hurt had to help what's really hurt. In the days that followed, Mark had to face up to the real meaning of love and responsibility - and death.Tags
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Love at least one other by the author. Book was answer to a 'what's the name of that book' style stumper on Fiction.L, so, was memorable to at least that one reader.
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Finished. Relatively straightforward adventure, but, for me, will be readily forgotten, actually. Although it was neat to learn of different reactions to a tornado by different vignettes of members of the community. For example, a farm stand was up and running soon after, but the seller limited Mark's purchase of potatoes, saying that he wanted to have some avl for other hungry ppl.
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Finished. Relatively straightforward adventure, but, for me, will be readily forgotten, actually. Although it was neat to learn of different reactions to a tornado by different vignettes of members of the community. For example, a farm stand was up and running soon after, but the seller limited Mark's purchase of potatoes, saying that he wanted to have some avl for other hungry ppl.
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Tornadoes -- children's/young adult fiction
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Author Information
35+ Works 9,375 Members
Meindert DeJong is the award-winning author of many classic books for children. Among Mr. Sendak's other popular books is his Caldecott Medal-winning Where the Wild Things Are
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- A Horse Came Running
- People/Characters*
- Mark; Mr. 'Großvater' Sayers; Mrs. 'Mama' Sayers; Mutter (von Mark); Vater (von Mark); Colonel (Pferd) (show all 8); Fee (Pferd); Lin
- First words*
- Zwei Pferde standen an ihrem Weidezaun.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Uns so gingen sie und gingen und gingen.
- Original language*
- Englisch
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.91 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .D3675 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
Statistics
- Members
- 126
- Popularity
- 259,937
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.00)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 7
