Summary
Twelve-year-old Alice Winston lives on a horse ranch in rural Colorado, where she must come to grips with the death of a schoolmate and her older sister Nona running off to marry a cowboy.
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Critique
A contemporary story of the West, of a lifestyle tied closely to the land and to the weather--a lifestyle that is as hard as it is rewarding, a lifestyle that by the 1980s is slowly dying.
A brilliantly written debut novel that won the 2008 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West and also a 2008 Alex Award.
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