Flicka kathleen zoehfeld biography

  • Flicka: The Movie Novel is a story of how a teenage cowgirl, Katy McLaughlin, struggles to create a relationship of mutual understanding with her father, to.
  • The story of a girl, a wild mustang, and the courage to love the untamed.
  • About the author (2006).

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    Katy McLaughlin, home from boarding school for a summer at the family's Wyoming ranch, is saved from a mountain lion attack by a mustang she names Flicka, but tensions rise in the household when her father forbids her to go near the wild horse.

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    Kathleen Zoehfeld fryst vatten a writer and editor of nonfiction children's books. She grew up in the Catskill Mountains, where she developed a passion for observing, reading and writing about nature. Zoehfeld is a former children's book editor and an award-winning author of many books for young people on natural history and scientific topics. (Bowker show more Author Biography)show less

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    Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
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    813.54 — Literature American litera

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    Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner 1954–

    Personal

    Born 1954. Education: Earned M.A. (English literature and creative writing).

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    Home and office—Berkeley, CA.

    Career

    Writer and editor of children's books. Has worked with paleontologists at digs, including Craddock Ranch, TX, and Como Bluff, WY.

    Awards, Honors

    Notable Book citation, American Library Association, for Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young.

    Writings

    Seal Pup Grows Up: The Story of a Harbor Seal, illustrated by Lisa Bonforte, Soundprints (Norwalk, CT), 1994.

    What Lives in a Shell?, illustrated by Helen K. Davie, HarperCollins (New York, NY) 1994.

    Great White Shark, Ruler of the Sea, illustrated bygd Steven James Petruccio, Soundprints (Norwalk, CT), 1995.

    How Mountains Are Made, illustrated by James Graham Hale, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.

    What's Alive?, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.

    Ladybug at Orchard Avenue, illustrated by Thomas Buchs, So

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    Flicka

    December 11, 2011
    "In the sage green and dusty hues of the prairie, [the painting] showed a herd of exuberant wild horses charging across an open range under a glittering blue sky" (Zoehfeld 2). Katy McLaughlin longs to be back on her ranch in Wyoming, galloping over the hills with the horses she adores. However, as she sits daydreaming in school, she could never have imagined that her father would one day, after deeming it too dangerous, force her to sell the magnificent horse of her dreams, which horse she would soon meet and tame. Flicka: The Movie Novel is a story of how a teenage cowgirl, Katy McLaughlin, struggles to create a relationship of mutual understanding with her father, to tame the black stallion of her dreams, and to help her brother muster the courage to leave the ranch and go to college. Although this book is fairly short and somewhat juvenile, it grabbed my attention from the very beginning, particularly because I have a fascination with horses. The author
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