Centaur Rising

Description:

In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret. A year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields near her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because her six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the pony a secret.

subjects: Horses,  Human Abnormalities,  Centaurs,  Secrets,  Juvenile fiction,  Single-parent families,  Fiction,  Fantasy,  Quakers,  Secrecy,  Farm life,  History,  Children's fiction,  Horses, fiction,  Farm life, fiction,  Connecticut, fiction,  Single-parent families, fiction,  JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic,  JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Horses,  JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life,  JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues),  Connecticut, history, fiction

Places: Connecticut

Times: 20th century