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A Horse Called September (1978)

by Anne Digby(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0583302777 (ISBN13: 9780583302777)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Dragon Books

review 1: This book was what I always wanted when I was younger and looking for a book to read. Every single part of it tied up in happy ribbons. Cliché? I really don't care.Mary's dad work's on Anna's dad's farm, and the two grow up friends. Then Anna's Dad gets serious about horse shows and everything gets turned on its head. Its pretty accurate about how people can change because of their surroundings. Money can make people crazy.In the end though, after everything fell apart, everyone found a way to their happiness again.
review 2: I got this on Kindle as a free download and was enchanted by this book, typical of what I read growing up in the fifties. It is about friendship, love home and family and horses, particularly a horse called September. It's about a girl fr... moreom a poor home in the British countryside discovering her talent while staying true to her values, where everything ends happily and good works are rewarded. How refreshing!Although the main character is 16 or 17 she seems younger compared to today's 17 year old girls. Significantly, there is no romance. This was back when young people read books that taught them life's lessons while entertaining with a solid story. Not every book had to have a romantic subplot. There were no young men in this story, not even a handsome neighbor boy that Mary wanted to impress. How interesting that 50 years later, after decades of women's rights, our girls now read modern YA novels where the female main character always needs a boy's interest to validate their worth. In A Horse Called September, Mary's worth is validated by her having a dream, setting a goal and then working to attain it.I am pretty sure I read this as a young girl, although that was so long ago I can't remember exactly but it's just the type of book I would have loved then, and I loved it now. less

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