Hattie's Horse
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Thirteen-year-old Hattie Thompson is actually delighted with her parent's decision to send her to Montana to live with her grandmother. Hattie adores her grandma and has previously enjoyed a month every summer at Gram's in which she gets to ride and work with Dusty, Gram''s aging cow horse and trained barrel racer. School has closed abruptly and gone to remote learning because of a global pandemic. Her parent's, both doctors working in a Boston hospital, want to protect Hattie from the Covid-19 virus. She can do school remotely from any distance. The only problem with a pandemic, as Hattie sees it, is that it goes on way too long, plenty of time for her to miss her parents and for her troubles to accumulate. When Dusty goes missing along with a runaway boy that Hattie was protecting, Hattie is bereft in the shadow of loss, guilt, and regret. Lessons learned the hard way make this coming-of-age story reflect the reality and responsibilities of growing up.
Janet Muirhead Hill
Janet Muirhead Hill is the author of thirteen published novels for children ages 8-18. She co-authored curriculum units to adapt the novels for use in classrooms and home schools.Hill has presented many writing and publishing workshops across the state and in Colorado and Oregon. She is available to present workshops to fit one, two, three, four, or five days of instruction depending on the needs and time schedules of her sponsors and students. She has conducted many one-day school visits in Montana and Colorado, and has plans for longer residencies. She wrote and published comprehensive workbooks for use with her three, four, and five-day writing workshops. She is listed in the Artist's Registry of the Montana Arts Council.Her published children’s and young adult novels include the award-winning Miranda and Starlight series of eight (soon to be nine) books, Danny’s Dragon, a Story of Wartime Loss, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award, and a trilogy about twins, separated at a young age and searching for each other. Kyleah’s Tree, a finalist for both the High Plains Book Award and USA Book News, Best Book Award, is the the girl twin's story. It's companion novel, Kendall's Storm, silver medal winner of the Moonbeam Award, is the boy twin's story. Kendall and Kyleah, is the third book of the series completes their story. Her book, Call Me Captain has been renamed, The Body in the Freezer, and is a story about a 13-year-old rich kid who is both smart, and smart-mouthed searching for his place in the world—and finding when forced to "volunteer" in a homeless shelter.Hill calls the writing she does “true fiction,” because, she says, “My goal is to tell the truth about the human experience, its dilemmas, natural responses, and emotions through fictional characters; characters children relate to; characters who will help them better understand themselves, giving them comfort and encouragement in their own lives.”Ms. Hill spends much of her free time enjoying the outdoors, her horses, and most of all her family, which includes eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. She writes and publishes from her home office in rural Montana near the Madison River.
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