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Gr 4–7—Eleven-year-old Yonder has not spoken since her mother's death in a car accident four years earlier. She lives in a "crooked little house" in Vermont with her father, who copes with his grief by drinking too much. Life is not any easier at Robert Frost Middle School, where she is targeted by a bully named Heywood Prune. Yonder's life changes dramatically, though, when a one-eyed Shetland pony appears—almost magically—on a rainy night. Dirt, named for one of the pony's favorite thin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Eleven-year-old Yonder has not spoken since her mother's death four years earlier, her father has sunk into drunken depression, and sh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More