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The Winter Horses
The Winter Horses
Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - Gray New Gloucester Middle School, Gray, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: July 8, 2014
Review
This has the feel of White Fang and Incredible Journey. Kalinka is the lone survivor of her Jewish family in a Nazis invaded Ukranian steppe. She walks for hundreds of miles until she comes to the Russian nature reserve at Askaniya-Nova (a real place still open to the public today). She lives with a family of Przewalski horses (oldest horses on earth found in cave paintings). The Nazis are intent on killing off these non-German horses, and Kalinka escapes with what may be the last mating pair on earth.
Overall Book Score: excellent
About the Book
Author:
Kerr, Philip
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: chapter book fiction
Genre: historical fiction
Audience: grades 4-6
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: good
ISBN: 9780385755436
Price: 16.99