num_pages: 269
description: Chasing Painted Horses has a magical fable-like quality. It is the story of four unlikely friends who live in Otter Lake a reserve north of Toronto. Ralph and his sister Shelley live with their parents. On the cusp of becoming teenagers they and their friend William befriend an odd little girl from a dysfunctional family. Danielle a timid 10 year old girl draws an amazing arresting image of a horse that draws her loose group of friends into her fantasy world. But those friends are not ready for what that horse may mean or represent. It represents everything thats wrong in the girls life and everything she wished it could be. And the trio who meet her and witness the creation of the horse are left trying to figure out what the horse means to the girl and later to them. And how to help the shy little girl.
language: English
title: Chasing Painted Horses
publisher: Cormorant Books