Cindy's Heartbreak

by Karen Bentley

Book Overview

Cindy has trained Storm ever since he was a colt. Now he's a full-fledged racehorse and he's blindingly fast. In his three-year session at Gulfstream Park, Florida, he piles up victory after victory. Cindy is sure that storm is on his way to becoming a champion. When they get back to Whitebrook, though, disaster strikes. Cindy discovers that an incurable disease has spread through the area. Then Storm tests positive, and the vet warns that if they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061064890
• ISBN13: 9780061064890
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

sad-sad-sad, but good-good-good!!!!

This book was awsome! It's so touching! Here, "'Cindy...Say good-bye to him...You have to' Tears streaked down Ashleigh's face, but her voice was sure and soothing...Ashleigh knows how I'm feeling, Cindy thought. She knows what it's like to lose your horse. I have to do this. But a knife twisted in her heart as she turned to the beautiful colt...Storm stepped closer and put his head trustingly in Cindy's arms. Cindy hugged him hard one last time, holding his soft neck against her wet face...Cindy heard Storm's last, soft whicker as she left the stall." READ THIS BOOK!!! I cry every single time, and I've read it about 9 times.

Great!

This story tell's you about a grey colt named Storm's Ransom, or simply Storm. Cindy McLean has been working with the racehorse ever since he came to Whitebrooke. Storm soon becomes a champion sprinter and is winning races all over the place. After one win, Strom comes home sick. When the vet tells Ashleigh and Mike to put Storm down, will Cindy make the choice to ever have another bond with a horse or will the death of Storm over whelm her?This is a beautifully written book and is Bentley's best. The story tugs at you heart strings and brought tears to my eyes. It really has a strong plot and is very discriptive. Though Storm was just tossed into the books, you kind of forget that as you read along. It's like Wonder is tossed out the window and Storm is the main horse character. It has the right to be widely read. Five stars

Super Sad!

I thought that this book was very well writtin,even if it was wrote by Karen Bently, and that it was very very sad. I cried the first time I read it.Storm was such a cool horse and would have made a super racer in the future.I reccommend this book to all readers,but I think that anyone interested in the series should start with the first book cause there just better that way. I started somewhere in the middle and just a while ago I started at the begining and I'm working my way up. Maybe I be closer to Number 41 later this year.Over all this was a great book.

Sad!

I read this book when it first came out and I got teary eyed, but I just read it again and practically was balling! Well, that's exagerating, but I couldn't talk m throat wasso choaked up. I think it's one of the saddest TB books. If only the new ones were this quality!

This is one of the best books in the series!!!

I think that this book deserves more credit than people are giving it. I cried for almost an hour afterward!!!! It's a real tearjerker.I have collected the whole series, from 1 to 31 and all of the super editions. They take up two whole shelves in my bookshelf, and I stare at them every time I go in my room. I still think that this is one of the saddest, though. And for all you critics out there, THINGS CAN'T STAY THE SAME FOR EVER !!!!! I mean, to some people, Cindy's a spoiled little brat! But, she really cares about horses, and not how much they can perform or race. Christina is like, "Oh no, my friend Dylan isn't paying attention to his horse anymore, whatever shall I do??" Now, SHE'S a brat!!!