Racing Manhattan
By: Terence Blacker
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Somerville, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780763692735
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Horses; Race horses; Teenage girls; Fiction
Description: Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro. When, in a desperate attempt to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan   brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing's scrap heap.
Notes: 789Y Childrens Plus, Inc.