No Small Thing - Softcover

Ghent, Natale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006392784 ISBN 13: 9780006392781

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 2015

Synopsis

When twelve-year-old Nathaniel and his two sisters, Cid and Queenie, discover an ad for a free pony in the paper, they can hardly believe their luck. The pony is theirs, as long as they can afford to take care of it. But what will their mother say?

Nat knows things are hard for his mom; his dad walked out on them four years ago. But having a pony would help Nat and Cid stop bickering and it would mean so much to Queenie. When Nat's mother lets them keep it, life is still not easy, but at the end of each day, Nat knows his pony is waiting from him. Until a fire destroys the barn...

Winner of the Hackmatack Book Award, No Small Thing was also a Silver Birch Honour Book and shortlisted for the Canadian Library Assocation's Book of the Year for Children Award.

About this title

Review:

"This is such a refreshing book, a beautifully written book about difficulty, but not about issues." The Globe and Mail"

About the Author:

Natale Ghent is an award-winning journalist and the author of No Small Thing, also published in the US and the UK, and The Book of Living and Dying, a novel for young adult readers. No Small Thing has been critically acclaimed in Canada and internationally. Nominated for four Canadian children's choice awards, including the CLA Book of the Year for Children award and the Silver Birch award (Honour Book), No Small Thing was also chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection in the US and a Borders Original Voice. Born in Brookfield, Illinois, Natale Ghent moved to Canada as a small child. She lives with her family in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0006392784
• ISBN 13: 9780006392781
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240