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This is a Scholastic Press paperback that I originally picked up thinking it might be something like Margurite Henry's Misty of Chincoteaque or a short Black Beauty written for younger children.
Nope. Not until the kids are at least tween-agers.
DREAM OF NIGHT was heartbreaking-- about an abused ex-racehorse and an abused child.
But at least for those two lost souls, there was a gleam of hope; a lady who didn't have much herself shared what she had with them.
Book blurb: Once full of promise and life, now lost in the shadows of abuse. This is Dream of Nights storyand it is also Shilohs. One is a Thoroughbred racehorse, the other a twelve-year-old foster child. By chance they both find themselves under the care of Jessalyn DiLimaa final stop for each before the state takes more drastic measures. If this doesnt work out, the girl will be sent to a residential facility and the horse to a vet . . . for euthanizing. This is their last chance, so why are they both so resistant? And why cant they see that Jessies life is not as easy as it seems? She fosters animals and children like them for a reasonshes a little broken too. And, like Shiloh and Dream of Night, Jessie knows what it means to have lost nearly everything you love. A story of hope and healing, Dream of Night reminds us all that the most important bonds in life are never forged by force, and that the darkness of night will eventually give way to dawn.
Nope. Not until the kids are at least tween-agers.
DREAM OF NIGHT was heartbreaking-- about an abused ex-racehorse and an abused child.
But at least for those two lost souls, there was a gleam of hope; a lady who didn't have much herself shared what she had with them.
Book blurb: Once full of promise and life, now lost in the shadows of abuse. This is Dream of Nights storyand it is also Shilohs. One is a Thoroughbred racehorse, the other a twelve-year-old foster child. By chance they both find themselves under the care of Jessalyn DiLimaa final stop for each before the state takes more drastic measures. If this doesnt work out, the girl will be sent to a residential facility and the horse to a vet . . . for euthanizing. This is their last chance, so why are they both so resistant? And why cant they see that Jessies life is not as easy as it seems? She fosters animals and children like them for a reasonshes a little broken too. And, like Shiloh and Dream of Night, Jessie knows what it means to have lost nearly everything you love. A story of hope and healing, Dream of Night reminds us all that the most important bonds in life are never forged by force, and that the darkness of night will eventually give way to dawn.
