Home Is Where Your Horse Is (Horsefeathers) [Paperback]

Dandi Daley Mackall (Author)

Book Description

Series: Horsefeathers | Publication Date: October 1, 2000

When Scoop meets the beautiful and glamourous Twila Twopennies and is invited to help out at her lavish stables, Scoop imagines that Twila is the mother who gave her up for adoption fifteen years earlier.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0570070872
• ISBN-13: 978-0570070870
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,159,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dandi won her first writing contest as a 10-year-old tomboy. Her 50 words on "Why I Want to Be Batboy for the Kansas City A's" won first place, but the team wouldn't let a girl be batboy. It was her first taste of rejection.
Since then, Dandi Daley Mackall has become an award-winning author of over 400 books for children of all ages, with sales of 4 million copies in 22 countries. Recent picture books with Sleeping Bear Press include Legend of Ohio, Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story (Notable Book 2008 - Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People National Council of Social Studies & Children's Book Council; winner of the Angel Award, 2008; Winner of the "Award of Excellence" from Chicago Book Show 2007) and 2008 release, A Girl Named Dan (her own "batboy" story, and a lesson on Title IX), 2 Mom's Choice Awards & Amelia Bloom Award. Eva Underground, Harcourt young adult novel, nominated ALA Best Book 2007, starred Kirkus review, awarded a Top Teen Read by New York Public Library, finalist for Ohioana Award, was based on the author's experiences behind the Iron Curtain. Love Rules was awarded Romantic Times' Top Pick. Middle-grade fiction, Larger-than-Life Lara, Dutton/Penguin, which teaches how to write, while tackling the problem of bullying, is on the KY Bluegrass Award List 2007-8; William Allan White Award list, 2008-9; KS and KY Children's Choice lists. Her Winnie the Horse Gentler series has sold over half a million books and Starlight Animal Rescue is a Gold Medallion finalist. Dandi received the 2009 Helen Keating Ott Award for distinguished contribution toward promoting high moral and ethical values in children and young adult literature. She also received the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2008 from the University of Missouri. Dandi is a national speaker, keynoting at conferences and Young Author events, and has made dozens of appearances on TV, including ABC, NBC, and CBS. Visit Dandi at www.dandibooks.com, winniethehorsegentler.com, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85oaIUbJ8j8

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very well written and an awesome message.1 prob w/ it though, March 5, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Home Is Where Your Horse Is (Horsefeathers) (Paperback)

'Home is where your horse is', is a very good book.My 1 problem that I had with it though,is that I wanted more details about Scoop and Travis's relationship,and I kinda wanted a romantic ending with Scoop and Travis.But it still was a VERY good book.My favorite thing about this book is that Dandi gives the message in this book that even though you may not be genetically related to someone,they're still your family because in the Body Of Christ,everybody is family.I find it very cool that in the end, Scoop realized that it really didn't matter at that point who her birth-mother was,she was just thankful that her birth-mom brought her into the world.And another good thing that Scoop realized,is that whatever happened,her(and Orphan)would serve the Lord.Always.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has Scoop found her real mother?, July 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Home Is Where Your Horse Is (Horsefeathers) (Paperback)

Scoop thinks she has found her birth mother in this book. Her name is Twila Twopennies. In the book before Home is Where Your Horse Is Scoop helped deliver a foal. Twila bought the foal and Scoop went to her farm to help. She found out that Twila had a baby the around the same time Scoop was born and she gave it up for adoption.