Jodie's Journey

by Colin Thiele

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060261323
• ISBN13: 9780060261320
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Jodies Amazing journey

Jodies journey is great. Jodie is a girl who loves horseriding, but during a competition something goes terribly wrong. She can never horseride again. But that dosont stop her determination to be a normal girl. By Paul.

A Real Nail Biter

This book is great. Jodie is a very strong little girl. She has a horse named Monarch and she feels they are soul mates. They compete in jumping contest and win quite a few. One day her hands and knees started hurting her. The pain got worse and worse until one day she went to the doctor. The doctor told her she had rheumatoid arthritis. Jodie was crushed that she would never ride again. She is put in a wheelchair and has to learn how to live again. This book tells all of her adventures and how strong she is. I could not put it down. I would recommend anyone reads it.

Excellent Book

Jodies Journey is an excellent book for anyone over the age of 10. Jodie is a a 12 year old girl who is an excellent horse rider. Not long after winning a riding competition Jodie finds out she has rheumatoid arthritis. She will never be able to ride her beloved horse Monarch again. This book is set in the Adelaide Hills, Australia. Jodie has many challenges to over come one of them being surviving the Ash Wednesday bush fires and keeping Monarch out of danger. Colin Thiele is a excellent author and I recommend strongly that you read this incredible story of a young girl fighting a crippling disease.

An Australian classic

Written by Colin Thiele, Jodies Journey is a book that children from 7 years old to adults 120 years old will all enjoy with the same enthusiasm. It is about Jodie, a girl who has just won a big riding competition, getting arthritus. Her feelings are explained well, just as if the writer was Jodie,writing an auto-biography. Her pain is felt by the reader. I have been a fan of Colin Thiele for years, and I still read this book as often as I can. My name is Elizabeth and I am 12 years old. I've read the book and recomended it to mum, who loved it as well