The Boy on a Black Horse

by Nancy Springer

Book Overview

Gray, a young girl struggling to recover from her own deep wounds, becomes involved with Chav, a mysterious and intriguing new boy in her class, who claims that he and his two younger siblings are searching for their father, the King of the Gypsies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442413530
• ISBN13: 9781442413535
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Fairy-tale-ish

This book deals with very real issues, but has kind of a surreal, fairy-tale-ish quality to it, probably because of the presence of a vagabond gypsy family on a black horse. You can just imagine them, riding away in the gray mists of morning...The characters are well-developed and thought out, and the plot is intense, but thoughtful and moody.

It was the BEST!

LisaThis book was the best! It was really good that I couldn't put it down! When I read it, it feels as if I'm right there in the book! Like I'm right there standing and seeing the whole scene. You have got to read this book!

GREAT BOOK!!!

"Boy on a Black Horse" was FANTASTIC!!! Nancy Springer has a natural writing style, and the story was so good that I read the book all day. I really couldn't put it down! The characters had an impact on me, and I feel as if I know them!! This is a truly unforgetable book that is one of my favorites.

A real life show

Your heart stops. This book has the most amazing content of any I have read. It was much more then an honor. It brings out more feelings and emotions then you knew you had. This is a truely amazing book. When Chav goes through all his problems and pains, you wish along with Grey, the caring horse loving young girl, you feel like you are in the setting with the charater, and you seem to be swallowed by everything.

This book was soooo good, it made me cry.....

Books that make me not want to put it down are really great!!! I cried lots during this book and I think its top!!!!