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A review by tamarasbooknook
Pony by R.J. Palacio
5.0
Exciting, poignant and skilfully woven coming-of-age historical adventure and ghost story, set in the American Wild West in the 1800s.
Silas has an unusual and solitary childhood. After his mother died giving birth to him, he grows up alone, except for his father and his best friend, Mittenwool, who happens to be a ghost. Not fitting in with other children and being singled out by the narrow minded teacher, he instead receives an unorthodox but enriching education from his father.
But one day their wotld is shattered when three strangers approach on horseback and take his father away. When the pony later returns to Silas by itself, he decides he has to follow and help his father.
Although the people, places and events are fictional, they could all have happened based on the author's extensive research of events around the time, imaginatively intertwining the pioneers of photography with the rise of counterfeiting, using photographs from the era as inspiration for her characters.
Silas has an unusual and solitary childhood. After his mother died giving birth to him, he grows up alone, except for his father and his best friend, Mittenwool, who happens to be a ghost. Not fitting in with other children and being singled out by the narrow minded teacher, he instead receives an unorthodox but enriching education from his father.
But one day their wotld is shattered when three strangers approach on horseback and take his father away. When the pony later returns to Silas by itself, he decides he has to follow and help his father.
Although the people, places and events are fictional, they could all have happened based on the author's extensive research of events around the time, imaginatively intertwining the pioneers of photography with the rise of counterfeiting, using photographs from the era as inspiration for her characters.