Kent Meyers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson, now a skilled and respected horse trainer, grudgingly agrees to train Magnus's horses and teach his wife to ride. But as Carson becomes disaffected with the power-hungry Magnus, he also grows more and more attracted to the rancher's wife, and...
2) Twisted tree
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Formats
Description
Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event - their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl's story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo, an ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing her with her best...
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Pub. Date
c1998
Description
"When Kent Meyers's father died of a stroke, ... there was a farm to maintain. Meyers recounts the wake of his father's death when he was sixteen and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest... Meyers's father is the central figure that these memories revolve around. After his father's death, Meyers fills his shoes out of necessity, practicality, and respect. In doing so, he discovers that his father was a great teacher and that...