Shadow Horse

by Alice Leonhardt

Thirteen-year-old foster kid Jasmine Schuler is immediately drawn to the scrawny, broken-looking brown gelding huddled in the corner of an auction house stall. Feeling a kinship with the lonely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679886427
• ISBN13: 9780679886426
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Great mystery for horse lovers

Shadow Horse is about a 13 year old girl named Jasmine (Jas) who is sent to live in a foster home at Second Chance Farm after she assaults the owner of a horse farm. Jas becomes friends with Chase, a young boy who helps out a Second Chance. Together they become determined to figure out if Jas' new horse is a look-alike for the one who was poisoned for insurance money. Overall, this is an excellent book for horse and mystery lovers alike.

The best book you can imagen

This book is about a girl named Jas who assaulted the owner of her favorite horse after it dies. Jas knows that Hugh(the owner) poisoned Whirlwind(the horse), but he has the power to shift all the blame to her grandfather. Now Jas has to live with a foster parent on the Second Chance farm. She is determined to prove that Hugh poisoned Whirlwind, and when she rescues a mysterious horse, she knows that somehow that horse is connected to Whirlwind's death. This book is absolutley amazing, and I couldn't put it down. The ending is dissapointing because it leaves the mystery half solved. I wouldn't read it unless there is a sequel coming out.

Shadow Horse

This book is great. It is so greaat that I finished it in only two days because I couldn't put it down. And now I'm bummed cause the next one doesnt come out until March 2001. I also felt that this story connected with me. I have a horse that I feel that I got him for a reason. Like Shadow he proved his love by being willing to learn. He tought me how to ride, including 6 throws in 1 year. Although they were mainly my fault, but that isnt what we are talking about. This book should be read by all horse lovers, and people who just love a good book! I hope the wait for the sequel doesnt kill me!

The horse in the Shadows

The book shadow horse was an adventure to read. Alison Hart combined two of my fav. subjects, horses, and mystery. Often times I would find myself feeling as though I were in the book. With each horse that was sick or was killed it didn't just hurt Jas (one from book), it also hurt me. This story is amazing the way that it paints pictures in your head and it's as if you are there doing everything she is. This story about a lost horse and a lost soul is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I reccomend it to anyone.

Great Book!

This is a great book! It starts where Jas is waiting to see a judge for assaulting a rich horse owner who killed the horse she loved, Whirlwind. The horse owner, Hugh, claims Jas's grandfather accidentally poisoned the horse, but Jas knows that is not possible. Jas is sentenced to live under a kind of 'house arrest' on Second Chance Farm, a place where abused and neglected animals of all kinds are brought, cared for, and adopted out. Jas secretly collects clues as to how and why Hugh killed Whirlwind, whether he has killed before, and how she can prove it. In the meanwhile, she also takes care of and trains a large but sick horse bought at a 'meat auction,' begins to ride again, and comes to trust other people in her life. The story is well-written, fast-paced, poignant, and funny at times, and full of fascinating details about the juvenile system and about horses in general. Buy this book for yourself or the horse- or mystery-lover in your life!