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Wild Girl
By Giff, Patricia Reilly
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37583-890-3
- Publisher
- Wendy Lamb Books
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2009
Gr 4-6 Twelve-year-old Lidie must leave her beloved home in Brazil for a new life in New York. She reunites with Pai and her older brother, who left shortly after Mamãe died five years earlier. Lidie's father and Rafael train racehorses for a wealthy benefactor. When she meets the filly Pai has dubbed Wild Girl, Lidie remembers ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2009 |
Since her mother's death five years before, twelve-year-old Lidie has been living with her aunt and uncle in her native Brazil. Now she is finally joining her father and older brother Rafael in Queens, New York, where they work training race horses. Headstrong, impulsive Lidie is excited to show Pai, her father (dubbed the Horseman), all she has learned about horses and riding, but Pai and Rafael still think of h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Twelve-year-old Lidie, headstrong and impulsive, leaves Brazil and joins her father and brother in Queens, New York, where...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on November 1, 2009
A well-paced, contemporary immigration story starring a protagonist with whom readers will feel a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
