Where the Wild Horses Are

Where the Wild Horses Are - Hardcover

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Where the Wild Horses Are - Hardcover

Where the Wild Horses Are - Hardcover

by Amy Alznauer
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Book Overview

by Amy Alznauer (Author)

Nash Eliza West has been horseless her whole life, and she has one shot to turn things around.

Twelve-year-old Nash is a self-proclaimed cowboy. She sleeps with her riding boots on, takes lessons at the local barn, and reads True Grit for life advice. There's just one thing missing-- a horse of her own.

Enter the Extreme Mustang Makeover contest, a chance to receive and tame a newly-captured mustang for the summer. Signing up will guarantee Nash one hundred days with a horse; and if she wins, she can use the prize money to bring him home for good. It's the miracle Nash has been waiting for.

But Nash's attention is divided when her cousin Benny arrives to stay for the summer. While Nash and Benny were once like sisters, the six years since Nash moved away have driven a wedge between them. Benny is everything Nash isn't: gentle and well-behaved, and Deaf like Nash's parents are. Sometimes she wonders if they'd rather have a daughter like that than a headstrong cowboy CODA like Nash.

A brave girl and a horse no one believes can be tamed: it's a tale as old as time, brought to sizzling new life through Nash's one-of-a-kind voice. Amy Alznauer weaves cowboy bravado, growing pains, and Deaf culture inspired by life in her Deaf-hearing family into a debut middle grade novel that will lasso you tight by the heart.

Author Biography

Amy Alznauer is the author of several picture book biographies, including The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan, Flying Paintings: the Zhou Brothers, and The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape. Her writing has won the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Christopher Award, and the SCBWI-Illinois Laura Crawford Memorial Mentorship, and her essays and poetry have appeared in collections and literary journals including The Bellingham Review, Creative Nonfiction and River Teeth. She lives in Chicago with her husband and children.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 1.3 x 8.1 x 6.3 IN
Publication Date: October 13, 2026
ISBN9780823462360
Author Amy Alznauer
PublisherNeal Porter Books
GenreChildren and Sports
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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Amy Alznauer is the author of The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan, illustrated by Daniel Miyares, and Flying Paintings: The Zhou Brothers: A Story of Revolution and Art, illustrated by ShanZuo Zhou and DaHuang Zhou. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Her adult epistolary memoir Love and Salt won a Christopher Award, and she is on the mathematics faculty at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago.

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