Handsome: The Horse Next Door

By C. S. Adler

Corey bonds with a beautiful but lame Arabian horse she names Handsome. He not only helps alleviate her loneliness, but is able to encourage the autistic brother of Coreys school friend to speak.

When Coreys parents separate, her father moves her to a small house on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona where she must attend a new school for the last weeks of eighth grade. Corey finds making friends difficult. However, there is a small pasture behind the fence in her new backyard. There she could keep Handsome if she could persuade the old man who owns the pasture to let her use it.

Her parents reunite, and just when it seems Handsome will become the birthday present Corey longs for, another obstacle appears. Handsome damages himself futher when he balks at climbing into a horse trailer. Only Coreys determination makes a happy ending possible .

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781491795668

C. S. Adler

C. S. Adler is the author of 43 middle grade and young adult novels published by major publishers from 1979 to 2002. Her first novel, Magic of the Glits, won the Golden Kite Award. Later prizes for her stories include the William Allen White Award and the ASPCA Henry Berg Award. Her novels have been included on many states recommended book lists and have been published in other countries such as Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, and Turkey. Before becoming a full time author, she was a middle school English teacher in upstate New York where she lived with her husband and three sons before they moved to Tucson, Arizona. She now spends most of the year in Tucson and summers in Cape Cod.

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