"National Velvet"

Description:

In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.

subjects: Horses,  Grand National (Horse race),  Teenage girls,  Juvenile fiction,  Horse racing,  Fiction,  Grand National (Horse race) fast (OCoLC)fst01409956

Places: Great Britain