Wonder's Promise

by Joanna Campbell

Book Overview

Ashleigh's dreams are in tatters....Ashleigh Griffen is thrilled when the owner of the horse farm where she lives puts her favorite horse, Wonder, into training as a Thoroughbred racer. Ashleigh has spent the past year turning the sickly filly into a beautiful, healthy yearling.Ashleigh knows Wonder could be great, but Wonder dislikes her harsh new trainer. Soon she's bucking and disobeying all his commands. Ashleigh is heartbroken when the trainer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061060852
• ISBN13: 9780061060854
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Faith in Wonder kept Ash going, even when all seemed lost.

This is the second installment in the amazing Thoroughbred series. In this book, Wonder has been put into yearling training under a rough trainer. Jennings thinks that Wonder has been babied all her life and it's high time she learned to be treated like a race horse. Wonder becomes a totally different horse as she he manhandled and whipped. Ashleigh and Charlie can see that this sort of "training" is ruining Wonder before she even has a chance to prove herself on the track. When Charlie and Ashleigh are given permission to exercise Wonder over the winter, they begin to plan a way to undo all that Wonder had been through. Ashleigh was terrified of her filly at first because Wonder was beyond control. It took a lot of guts and perseverance for her to climb up on that filly's back after she'd been thrown. The end result of all their hard work? Wonder was able to turn around and become the amazing horse that Charlie and Ashleigh had seen since the day she was born. This book is a perfect example of why the Thoroughbred series must be saved! This series began with so much promise during the Ashleigh/Sammy years. Yes, the series has changed many authors and there have been some major bumps in the road, but the faithful readers of the TB series can see through all that to what promise the series still has. There are new characters and plots that could be made into great new books, but Harper Collins is planning to end publishment of this series after book #72. If you want to help save this amazing series, go to www.whitebrookfarm.com to find out more. Be sure to sign the petition also (only once please!). Ashleigh knew Wonder had the potential to be great and we know that the TB series has the potential to bring great stories and characters back too! HELP SAVE THOROUGHBRED!

Great!

This was a great book. Wonder gets trained but not the way she should be trained. Jennings, her trainer, using force and whips to get her going but all Wonder needs is a gentle hand. Wonder responds horibbly to Jennings and Ashleigh believes that Wonder is ruined. Will Ashleigh save Wonder in time or will her chances of being an excellent racehorse be ruined? Read this book to find out.

Wonder's Promise

When Wonder is put into training Ashleigh is thrilled. But Jennings, the trainer doesn't give here the nice treatment Wonder has grown to known. Soon Wonder starts bucking and when Wonder throws Ashleigh, Ashleigh is ready to give up! But with help of the Grumpy old Charlie, Ashleigh, Linda and Jilly can Wonder become the star these four people know Wonder can be?

This is an interesting book of the training of a racehorse.

This book, besides being fun and exciting to read, was inaddition suspenseful. It also included lots of good accurate factsabout the training of a racehorse.

Excellent! Awesome! Highly Recommended!

This book is one of the best of the TB series I've ever read. Maybe Wonder wouldn't have been so hard to train if Ashleigh hadn't made her a one-person horse. Charlie is a good trainer and it's good that they have made Wonder get over her fears. Brad was such a jerk! He was so mean to Caroline by breaking up with her and just in front of the grooms! The first time they mentioned Brad in "A Horse Called Wonder", I knew that he was someone that Ashleigh had to watch out for. It's good that Caroline got another boyfriend. At least he's not mean.THIS BOOK IS GREAT! I RECOMMEND IT FOR ALL YOU HORSE LOVERS OUT THERE!