Book

Racing Manhattan / Terence Blacker.

ISBN: 9780763692735
ISBN: 0763692735
Physical Description: 343 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Copyright: &copy;2016

Summary:

Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro. When, in a desperate attempt to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan--brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing's scrap heap. Recognizing a fellow misfit, Jay fights to give Manhattan one last opportunity to show that she's the champion she was born to be. Together they face a world of prejudice and cruelty, fighting back the only way they know how--by becoming the best.